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CTV News
15-07-2025
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Police throw the book at erratic driver in Grey Highlands
Police lay more than half-a-dozen charges against unruly driver. Grey Bruce Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) received multiple reports from concerned drivers about a vehicle driving erratically northbound along Highway 10 in Grey Highlands on Monday at around 2 p.m. Police say witnesses described the vehicle as weaving dangerously through traffic and causing damage to several vehicles. Police located the driver on Highway 6-10, north of Chatsworth and he was taken into custody. A 31-year-old Etobicoke man has been charged with the following offences: Dangerous operation of a motor vehicle Flight from peace officer Operation while impaired Two counts of assaulting peace officer Fail to display two licence plates Drive motor vehicle - perform stunt Fail to stop for police The accused is scheduled to appear at the Ontario Court of Justice in Owen Sound on August 27. If you have any information regarding this incident, please call the Grey Bruce OPP at 1-888-310-1122. To remain anonymous, call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS) or submit a secure web-tip, where you may be eligible to receive a cash reward of up to $2,000.
CTV News
25-06-2025
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‘It can happen': MADD uses flipped car as visual reminder of impaired driving for summer campaign
A crashed car adorned with the painted words 'Don't Drive Impaired' sits flipped over on the side of the road in Nisku near Blackjack's Roadhouse on Wednesday. It marks the launch of the annual campaign by Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) Edmonton, which hopes the car will remind drivers to not drive impaired and help save lives. 'Hopefully, they remember that this is something that can actually happen to them and it's not something that happens to other people,' president of MADD Edmonton Allison Tatham said at the campaign launch. 'It can happen. It happens right here in our own community.' Tatham has been a paramedic for the past 19 years. She said working in emergency services did not prepare her and her family for being a victim of impaired driving. 'Eleven years ago, my dad was killed by an impaired driver, and it was something that was completely foreign to me as somebody who helps other people with their own emergency,' she said. 'Now it's something that happened in my own life.' Tatham added that she wishes the message was getting through to more people but said the legalization of marijuana has presented new challenges. 'Impaired driving also includes drugs, and marijuana (is) probably one of the bigger ones that we see because it doesn't affect you right now. It affects you later,' she said, adding that people can feel high in the middle of driving to their destination. MADD Edmonton crashed car campaign (Cam Wiebe/CTV News Edmonton) MADD Edmonton launches their "Crashed Car" campaign. A flipped over car on the side of the road sits under a billboard in Nisku on June 25, 2025. (Cam Wiebe/CTV News Edmonton) According to MADD Edmonton, four people are killed and 190 people are injured every day from impaired driving incidents. The car will sit at the Nisku location for six weeks before moving to its next location by Dignity Memorial on St. Albert Trail. The campaign runs until the end of the summer. Tatham hopes it will be the 'face of the community every day,' and that the crashed car will remind people not to drive impaired and to report an impaired driver if they see one. 'If we can call 911 every day to report an impaired driver, we're going to be so much better off in the long run,' she added. 'We just want people to understand that this is happening.' With files from CTV News Edmonton's Cam Wiebe
