The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) in the North East Region charged 98 people for impaired driving offences during the festive reduce impaired driving everywhere (RIDE) program from Nov. to Jan. 1, according to a news release.
Of the occurrences, 15 were officer-initiated traffic stops, 16 were from a RIDE program, 36 were traffic complaints from the public, and 31 were officers responding to motor vehicle collisions, the release added, also noting that 78 were impaired by alcohol, while 20 drivers were impaired by drugs.
Most recently, there were two people charged with impaired driving at RIDE programs on Dec. 31 and four more charged on Jan. 1 - two from calls, and two from proactive traffic stops, the release said.
Apart from these criminal charges, 26 were issued three-day driver's licence suspensions and one person a seven-day licence suspension as a result of registering an alert on an approved screening device: 11 handed out at RIDE programs, eight from traffic stops, seven from calls from the public, and one after a collision investigation.