(ESSEX, ON) – Members of the Essex County Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) received a call from a driver at 10:00 am on March 17, 2015, who indicated to the dispatcher that he was too drunk to drive his vehicle. He told police that he had pulled over onto the shoulder of Highway 3 and that he would leave his 4-way flashers on.
Police located the vehicle a short time later and discovered the driver still on the phone with OPP dispatch. Police also located open liquor in the vehicle.
The driver, 55-year-old Donald DUMMER of the Municipality of Essex Ontario was arrested and charged with Impaired Care and Control of a Motor Vehicle contrary to the Criminal Code of Canada. He will appear in Provincial Court – Windsor on April 7 to answer to the charge.