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Broadcast time: 9:45 am |
Date: February 23, 2018 |
As part of the ongoing effort to bringing awareness and preventing impaired driving, members of the Sarnia Police Service conducted a RIDE Program during the evening hours of February 22, 2018.
Prior to 8:30 pm, officers had set-up a RIDE check point on Front Street in the area of Nelson Street. During the check point an officer had reason to believe that the driver of a motor vehicle that was passing through had consumed alcohol and maybe over the legal limit. Therefore, the officer demanded that the driver provide a sample of breath into a road side screening device.
The sample taken indicated a “Fail” and at 8:30 pm the driver was arrested for having over 80 mg of alcohol per 100 ml of blood. The driver was then transported to the Sarnia Police Headquarters where a breath technician was able to administer the Intoxilyzer and determined that the accused was over two and a half times the legal limit.
The accused, Dana Hendrie, 48 years of age, was charged with having more than 80 mgs of alcohol in 100 ml of blood while driving a motor vehicle and released once sober.
The RIDE Program, from last evening, stopped approximately 275 motor vehicles and also laid three various Highway Traffic Act charges to other drivers.
Constable Giovanni Sottosanti
Media Officer
Tel: 519-344-8861 Ext 6168
Email: 168@police.sarnia.on.ca