CALL FROM CONCERNED CITIZEN LEADS TO ARREST OF IMPAIRED DRIVER

York Regional Police have charged a 23-year-old woman from Vaughan after a concerned citizen called 9-1-1 to report a suspected impaired driver.
On Thursday, June 4, 2020, at 7:35 p.m., police received a 9-1-1 call from a concerned citizen who was reporting a suspected impaired driver in the area of Highway 7 East and East Beaver Creek Road. The caller advised that the car was all over the road and nearly struck other vehicles. While police were en route, concerned citizens used their vehicles to block in the suspect after she had stopped in the area of Highway 7 East and Bathurst Street.
When officers arrived they saw that the suspect driver was showing obvious signs of being impaired by drug. She had told one of the concerned citizens that she had taken cannabis gummies and mushrooms prior to driving and cannabis gummies were also found in her vehicle. The driver was placed under arrest and paramedics were called to the scene. The driver was taken to hospital out of concern for her level of intoxication. She was later released from hospital with no injuries and has been charged.
Charged:
• 23-year-old woman from the City of Vaughan
Charges Include:
• Impaired Driving
• Dangerous Operation of a Motor Vehicle
In 2019, York Regional Police received 3,500 calls to 9-1-1 reporting suspected impaired drivers as part of our Safe Roads, Your Call program. That was an increase of nearly 18 per cent from the previous year. Many of those calls led to the more than 1,700 impaired-related criminal charges laid. So far in 2020, there have been more than 900 calls to 9-1-1 to report suspected impaired drivers. If you see dangerous driving on the road that could jeopardize the safety of motorists and pedestrians, you are encouraged to call 9-1-1 immediately.
York Regional Police continues to remind residents that the safest amount of alcohol or drugs to consume before you drive is zero.
We’re not giving up.

[@rockybudgeboa]

THANK YOU to the lady who called this in

[@user-zr6pl6nb6z]

Nothing like screaming into the phone.

[@DoubleAgent99]

It’s good you post these, but sad that drivers continue to think “I’m okay to drive”

[@amandap2650]

Awesome job citizens!! We cannot do our job without your eyes out there helping us catch people like this! You should be very proud of yourselves!

[@jolysh52]

Any word on the name of the driver?

[@user-sy4yz5zf3h]

Lol whistle blower at its finest

[@nicholasche3608]

I commend the helpful citizens and YRP.

[@johngta7172]

Great Job - im hoping no one was charged for using their phones for that call

[@amandap2650]

How about you just post "Great job". Did you once hear anyone say anything negative about the callers? Do you really think that the officers who attended this call, where our citizens risked their own safety to stop this driver, would charge those same citizens? They posted this to COMMEND the callers. A point you seem to have totally missed.