It doesn’t matter what time of day it is, RCMP will still find individuals who have had too much to drink behind a steering wheel.
On Saturday, at 3:10 p.m., a Vernon-North Okanagan RCMP officer checked a vehicle driving erratically on Pleasant Valley Road in Armstrong.
The driver was stopped by police, who formed grounds for impairment, and took the 39-year-old woman driver to the police detachment.
There, officers recorded readings of four times the legal limit on the driver, who was released from custody on a promise to appear in court.
A male passenger in the vehicle was also arrested for obstruction.
“He tried to obstruct officers while they were dealing with the driver,” said RCMP spokesperson Gord Molendyk.
During the week, RCMP arrested five impaired drivers, and six people were given 24-hour suspensions, four of them alcohol-related.
Four vehicles were impounded by police officers.
