(LUCAN BIDDULPH, ON) – On June 18, 2016, at approximately 5:07 a.m., the Middlesex County Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) were alerted to a motor vehicle in the ditch on Elginfield Road, near Clarke Road.
Officers responded, and determined that the male driver of the grey Hyundai sport utility vehicle (SUV) had been drinking alcohol. He was arrested, and transported to a Middlesex County OPP detachment for breath testing, which revealed he had consumed more than twice the legal limit of alcohol.
As a result of the police investigation, 30-year-old James MUNT, from London, Ontario, has been charged with driving while ability impaired – motor vehicle (alcohol), and driving with more than 80 mgs of alcohol in 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 August 3, 2016.