This past weekend was busy for Ontario Provincial Police officers who responded to five separate crashes, all blamed on impaired driving.
The first call was around 1 p.m. on Saturday when two vehicles collided on County Road 46 in Tecumseh. Police charged a 68-year-old Windsor man.
Around 12:45 a.m. on Sunday, police responded to a second crash. A vehicle drove into a ditch on Lakeside Drive in Lakeshore. Officers arrested a 60-year-old Lakeshore woman after observing signs of intoxication.
The third crash was five minutes later on County Road 27 in Lakeshore, where officers charged a 33-year-old Lakeshore man and charged him with impaired driving charges.
Then, at 7:10 a.m. on Sunday, officers responded to a single-vehicle crash in the eastbound lanes of Hwy. 401 at the Provincial Road off-ramp. When the driver refused to provide a breath sample, police arrested a 33-year-old Windsor man.
A fifth driver was issued a three-day suspension after police responded to a fifth crash on County Road 50 near Schiller Beach Road in Essex on Sunday night. Firefighters from Essex and paramedics extricated a 31-year-old man from his vehicle who suffered minor injuries.
Four drivers have had their driver's licenses suspended for 90 days while their vehicles sit in an impound yard for a week.
