Father with child passenger crashes into ditch, blows 3x over legal alcohol limit: OPP

A roadside screening test registers a fail. (Source: OPP/X)

Police charged a man with exceeding the legal alcohol limit by three times following a collision in Severn Township.

According to provincial police, officers and emergency crews were called about a vehicle that had crashed in a ditch along Coopers Falls Road early Friday evening.

Police say the man's 11-year-old child was also in the vehicle.

No injuries were reported.

The 43-year-old man from Uxbridge was ultimately charged with impaired driving offences.