Chatham-Kent Police Service Headquarters, July 23, 2015. (Photo by Mike Vlasveld)Chatham-Kent Police Service Headquarters, July 23, 2015. (Photo by Mike Vlasveld)
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Teen Charged With Impaired Driving

Police are now laying charges after a weekend crash near Tilbury that sent one person to hospital with life-threatening injuries.

The 19-year-old Tilbury man driving the vehicle is charged with impaired driving, breaching probation, and failing to wear a seatbelt.

Police say he was taken to the hospital in Chatham shortly after 6am Saturday morning after an SUV drove off King & Whittle Rd. and into a ditch hitting a culvert.

Once his condition was stabilized in Chatham he was transferred to Victoria Hospital in London and released on Sunday.

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