Responding to Rise in Impaired Driving Fatalities and Charges AURORA, ON – With Ontarians starting to head out for social outings in celebration of the upcoming holiday season, the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) are pulling out all stops to take impaired drivers off roads between now and the [Read more]
MARATHON, ON – Saturday November 17, 2012 at 11:00 pm, an officer from the Marathon Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) observed a male drive his motor vehicle to a local convenience store and then exits the vehicle. The officer spoke with the driver and detected a strong odour of alcohol on the [Read more]
MARATHON ON – Sunday September 23, 2012, at 6:30 pm, an officer from the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Manitouwadge detachment was on patrol on North Regan Road north of Highway 17. The officer observed a grey Nissan Versa parked in a small gravel pit with a male sitting in the driver’s seat [Read more]
SCHREIBER, ON – May 3 2012 at approximately 12:30 p.m. Schreiber Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) received a traffic complaint of a possible impaired driver. Officers located the suspect vehicle, a tanker fuel truck, on Highway 17 east of Terrace Bay in theTownship of Strey, and found that the [Read more]
THUNDER BAY, ON – Tuesday, May 01st 2012 at approximately 7:25 pm, Thunder Bay OPP responded to a fail to remain collision that occurred on Highway 527. The complainant advised that a black Dodge truck crossed the centre line striking the driver’s side mirror. In the meantime, the OPP [Read more]
WAWA, ON – Monday February 27, 2012 at 10:22 pm, Ontario Provincial Police responded to a call on Highway 17 in Bailloquet Township just North of Wawa. Upon arrival the OPP had occasion to speak with a male observed driving a motor vehicle. The driver, Kenneth BREZENSKI age 57 of Wawa, [Read more]
MARATHON ON – Saturday February 18, 2012 at 09:50 pm, Ontario Provincial Police (O.P.P.) officers conducted a R.I.D.E. program on Peninsula Road in the Town of Marathon. While conducting the R.I.D.E. 2 snowmobiles approached the location. One snow machine tried to evade police but was stopped a [Read more]
WAWA, ON – During the early hours of December 29th, 2011 Ontario Provincial Police Superior East Wawa detachment were dispatched to a possible impaired driver on a snowmobile. The snowmobile and driver were located on the corner of Klondike St and Broadway Ave. As a result of police [Read more]
IMPAIRED DRIVER CHARGED NIPIGON, ON –During the weekend of September 23 to September 25, 2011 Nipigon and Schreiber Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to: 32 calls for service Issued 37 Provincial Offence Notices Officers investigated 2 motor vehicle collisions September 23 at [Read more]
NIPIGON, ON – July 25, 2011 at 11:10 p.m. Nipigon Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) attended Hwy 11 and 17, Township of Red Rock to assist the driver of a tractor trailer unit stuck on the eastbound shoulder of the road. Officers spoke to the driver and found that he had been drinking. The 53 [Read more]
