IGNACE — Ontario Provincial Police in Ignace have laid more than half dozen charges against a local man after they say he nearly hit an officer with his car.
In a media release issued Wednesday afternoon, police said one of their officers was completing a traffic stop Tuesday evening on Main Street when a second, oncoming vehicle failed to move over and came close to hitting the officer.
Police stopped that vehicle on West Street, OPP said, and determined that the driver was impaired by alcohol. He was subsequently arrested and taken to the Dryden OPP detachment for breath testing. Police said they didn’t have to breath test at the scene as the driver was “obviously impaired,” and was taken for testing “by way of lawful demand,” according to their release.
The man was charged with a total of nine offences, including impaired driving, dangerous operation of a vehicle, driving while suspended, driving with open liquor and multiple counts of failing to comply with court orders.
He was taken into custody and is scheduled to appear in court in Dryden at an undetermined date.
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