Two children uninjured after impaired driving rollover crash

CITYnews halifax / By Natasha O’Neill

Police from the RCMP Halifax detachment responded to several incidents over the weekend for suspected impaired drivers, including one where two children were involved.

According to a press release, officials said the first happened on Nov. 7 around 10:50 p.m. They were called by the vehicle’s automatic crash notification on Crouchers Point Road in Glen Haven.

When they arrived, officers found a Range Rover on its roof with no one inside. Through the investigation they found the driver at his home with two child passengers. The driver sustained non-life-threatening injuries and the children were not injured.

The 43-year-old was arrested and provided two breath sampled to police of 170 mg per cent. He is expected to appear in court at a later date to face charges of impaired driving (over 80 mg per cent) and dangerous operation of a motor vehicle causing bodily harm.

The next day, RCMP were called to Highway 103 for a report of an eastbound Hyundai Elantra driving “erratically.”

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Police were able to stop the vehicle on Hammonds Plains Road and suspected the driver, a 55-year-old woman from Chester Basin, could be impaired.

They conducted a roadside sobriety test and she was arrested for impaired operation of a motor vehicle. It was later learned through testing at the RCMP detachment that the accused was impaired by drug.

Later on Nov. 8, around 11:30 p.m., police were attempting to stop a GMC Sierra on Sackville Drive when the truck sped off and crashed into a guardrail on the Highway 101 overpass.

The driver sustained non-life-threatening injuries and a passenger was not injured.

The 21-year-old behind the wheel, a man from New Brunswick, was arrested by officials for impaired operation of a motor vehicle, dangerous operation and flight from police.

“Drivers who use drugs or alcohol and get behind the wheel risk their lives and the lives of everyone else on the road,” RCMP said in a statement.