Trail RCMP officers have removed two impaired drivers from Kootenay roads over the weekend.
On Friday, January 24, around 7:11 a.m an officer responded to a report about a man who had allegedly passed out behind the wheel of his vehicle in the 1800 block of Columbia Gardens Avenue, in Fruitvale.
The officer found the 39-year-ol Trail man and his parked vehicle at the location where the vehicle engine was running.
EHS had arrived on scene before the officer and provided care to the man for a minor injury.
After observing the man’s inability to operate a motor vehicle, police conducted a standard field sobriety test of which the man failed.
The 39-year-old man was issued a 24-hour prohibition from driving and his vehicle was impounded for up to 24-hours.
Meanwhile. on Saturday, January 25, just after midnight an officer was patrolling in an unmarked police vehicle when he observed a 50-year-old Burnaby man allegedly driving a vehicle without any headlights on 1st Avenue near Queen Street, in Rossland.
The officer detained the man and his vehicle roadside, where the man claimed that it wasn’t his vehicle, and he did not know how to turn the headlights on.
The officer observed that the man’s ability to operate a motor vehicle may be impaired by alcohol, in which a demand was read to the man who provided a breath sample roadside that resulted in a ‘fail’.
The 50-year-old Burnaby man was issued a 90-day Immediate Roadside Prohibition (IRP) under Section 215 of the BC Motor Vehicle Act and the vehicle was impounded for up to 30 days.
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