(CENTRAL HURON & ASHFIELD-COLBORNE-WAWANOSH, ON) – A 45-year-old suspended driver from Waterloo decided to take a chance he wouldn’t get stopped by police – it turns out, he didn’t get stopped just once last Thursday, but he got stopped twice, about 90 minutes apart.
At approximately 9:20 p.m. on November 30, 2016 officers in a Huron County Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) patrol vehicle spotted a Dodge Caravan travelling eastbound into Clinton on Ontario Street in Clinton. Officers noted the validation sticker on the attached rear licence plate to be expired. The driver was stopped and during the course of the investigation officers also learned the driver was driving with a suspended driver’s licence. The driver was subsequently charged and his vehicle was towed away. This should have been the end of the story that night for this driver however he had other plans.
Shortly after 10:30 p.m. Huron OPP officers encountered the same vehicle and driver now travelling westbound on Londesboro Road. The defiant driver was charged again and his motor vehicle was towed away for the second time that evening.
45-year-old Todd COYNE from Waterloo has been charged with Drive While Under Suspension (2 counts) and Drive Motor Vehicle – No Validation on Plate. He will have to attend Provincial Offences Act Court in Goderich on January 17, 2017 to answer to his charges.