It was a rather sad weekend on Chatham-Kent roads in terms of boozing and cruising, as Chatham-Kent police say they arrested four people for impaired driving in four separate incidents over the weekend.
It began on Fairview Line on Friday evening, shortly before 8 p.m. Police were called for a vehicle stopped at a stop sign, and the driver appeared to be unconscious, with tin foil in his lap.
Police investigated and said the guy in the driver’s seat appeared to be impaired by drugs. Tests showed the man was over the legal blood-alcohol limit.
A 36-year-old Wallaceburg man is charged with impaired driving.
At 4:45 a.m. Saturday morning, police received another report of someone asleep at the wheel. This time, it was in Charing Cross and the vehicle was blocking traffic.
The driver was taken for breath tests.
As a result, a Harwich Township man, 19, is charged with impaired.
The intoxication parade continued. On Sunday morning, about 1:15 a.m., police went to pull over a vehicle on Forest Street for suspected impaired driving, but the driver fled on foot.
He didn’t get far.
A 40-year-old Chatham man is charged with impaired.
The booze-fueled charges continued 35 minutes later, when officers pulled over a vehicle on Queen Street in Chatham because they thought the driver might be impaired.
Apparently, they were correct.
A 21-year-old Blenheim man is charged with impaired driving.
