(MIDDLESEX CENTRE, ON) – On June 24, 2016, at approximately 11:42 p.m., members of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Highway Enforcement Team (HET), and the Middlesex County OPP, were dispatched to a motor vehicle collision on Vanneck Road, near Egremont Drive. The Middlesex Centre Fire Services and the Middlesex London Emergency Medical Services (EMS) also responded.
A white Ford pickup truck, travelling southbound on Vanneck Road, struck a black Chevrolet pickup truck, which was travelling northbound on Vanneck Road.
The three occupants of the Chevrolet truck were uninjured.
The driver, and lone occupant of the Ford truck, a 56-year-old male, suffered minor injuries, and was seen by EMS at the scene. Officers determined the male had been consuming alcohol. He was arrested, and transported to a Middlesex County OPP detachment for breath testing.
As a result of the police investigation, Neil MACMILLAN, from London, Ontario, has been charged with care or control while impaired (alcohol), and fail or refuse to provide sample 254(3) alcohol/blood, contrary to the Criminal Code of Canada.
The accused was released from police custody by way of a Promise to Appear (PTA), and is scheduled to answer the charges in a London court on July 20, 2016.
