Two ditch crashes lead to weekend impaired driving charges in Essex County

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Ontario Provincial Police have laid impaired driving charges in three separate weekend incidents — including two vehicles into ditches.

On Friday at 8:14 a.m., OPP report officers responded to a vehicle in a ditch on County Rd. 22 near Commercial Boulevard in Lakeshore.

A Belle River man, 38, was charged with two impaired driving-related offences and given a 90-day driver’s licence suspension and a seven-day vehicle impoundment.

The following day around 9:49 p.m., police were again called to the scene of a vehicle into a ditch, this time on County Rd. 27 in the South Woodslee area.

A 36-year-old driver, also from Belle River, was charged with two impaired driving-related offences. He was also given a 90-day licence suspension and a seven-day vehicle impoundment.

Later that day, around 11:43 p.m., OPP report a traffic stop on Dougall Ave. near the EC Row Expressway in Windsor led to a pair of impaired driving charges for a 26-year-old driver from the city.

They were also penalized with a 90-day licence suspension and weeklong vehicle impoundment.

OPP stress safety is a paramount community concern, and officers are focused on enforcing impaired driving laws to that end.

OPP urge the public to make non-emergency traffic complaints by phone to 1-888-310-1122 while anonymous tips can be made to Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS).