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PERSON DRIVES INTO OPP RIDE SPOT CHECK CRUISER – What do you think? Is driving into a RIDE spot-check evidence of impairment? Is the attempt to flee the scene evidence of consciousness of guilt?

Posted bywpengine 9 October 2019

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/crash-delta-ont-impaired-driving-ride-check-1.5310687

Posted bywpengine9 October 2019Posted inUncategorized

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DRUG IMPAIRMENT – THE FACT IS THAT IT CANNOT BE DETERMINED BY THE ALCOHOL MODEL APPROACH WE ARE TAKING – For cannabis, an officer spends six hours processing an impaired driver, compared to one hour for a driver impaired by alcohol. This difference reflects the time required to complete a specialized field sobriety test, to administer a test by a drug recognition expert and take a blood sample. The minimum cost to have one officer deal with a cannabis-impaired driver is $536.88, compared to $89.48 for an alcohol-impaired driver, suggests the report. Those costs don’t include labour for paperwork or court appearances.
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