Chatham-Kent drivers have enough to worry about with our winter road conditions, so it’s good to see these folks yanked off the road.
In the afternoon of New Year’s Eve, a car hopped a curb on Monarch Drive in Chatham, slid across a lawn and hit a parked car in a driveway. The culprit drove off, leaving some pieces of his vehicle behind.
Police say a citizen walking on Tasan Crescent later that day noticed a banged-up blue Chevy Cavalier parked at the back of a driveway. She called police, who responded and determined the car was the one involved in the Monarch driveway collision.
Police arrested a 19-year-old Chatham man and charged him with careless driving and failing to remain at the scene.
Meanwhile, another Chatham man faces numerous charges after a traffic stop on Gregory Drive East Jan. 2.
Police say an officer pulled a vehicle over about 3:30 p.m. because the plates weren’t valid. In fact, the license plates were last registered 18 years ago, in 1996.
As well, those plates didn’t belong to the vehicle being driven, police say.
Further investigation revealed the driver didn’t have a valid licence, didn’t have insurance, or a permit for the vehicle, and didn’t own the license plates. It appears he did own the car, but didn’t register said ownership.
Police charged a 23-year-old Chatham man with driving without a licence, driving without insurance, using plates not authorized for the vehicle, failing to surrender the permit for the vehicle, and failing to apply for a new permit upon becoming the owner of the vehicle.
Police had the vehicle towed.
