(MUNICIPALITY OF NORTH PERTH, ON) – Perth County Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) officers conducted a total of 19 Reduce Impaired Drivers Everywhere (R.I.D.E.) programs from Friday December 19, 2014 until Sunday night December 21, 2014, throughout the County. No impaired drivers were stopped however an unsafe vehicle was removed from the road and one driver was administered a roadside screening device test.
On Friday December 19, 2014 in the early hours of the morning, OPP officers set up a RIDE program at the intersection of Main St. West and Albert Ave. North in Listowel. A GMC Denali entered the RIDE program when one of the officers observed that the driver’s side rear wheel was not properly attached. The vehicle was towed from the scene and the 36 year old male driver from Teeswater was charged with “operate unsafe vehicleâ€.
Shortly after midnight on Saturday December 2014, a Pontiac Grand Prix entered a RIDE program set up at the intersection of Perth Line 72 and Perth Road 147 (in Donegal). The male driver of the car was administered a roadside breath test. The 26 year old Township of Perth East resident registered a “warn range suspensionâ€. Since this was the second “warn range suspension†for the male, he was issued a seven day drivers licence suspension and he will now have to take an alcohol education program.