Impaired driver caught with too many passengers issued prohibition, vehicle impounded: VPD

A photo posted to Twitter on Jan. 2 shows a black Mercedes-Benz that was impounded after Vancouver police conducted a traffic stop and found a driver was impaired with too many passengers in the vehicle. (Twitter/ @VPDTrafficUnit)

What began as a traffic stop over a suspected case of littering ended with Vancouver police impounding a vehicle and issuing multiple tickets.

The driver, who has received a prohibition, was found to be impaired with too many passengers in their vehicle, according to the Vancouver Police Department’s traffic section.

“You never know where a traffic stop will lead!” the VPD unit wrote on Twitter Monday morning, alongside a photo of a black Mercedes-Benz SUV in the process of being towed.

The tweet explains that a VPD member conducted the traffic stop after seeing a passenger littering from the vehicle.