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A 22-year-old man from Saltcoats is facing a number of charges including impaired driving and dangerous driving after a high-speed chase at the weekend.
Battlefords RCMP said in a news release on Feb 24 that the man charged was clocked at speeds as fast as 176 km/h while trying to get away from police on Feb. 21 around 11 a.m.
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Officers saw the vehicle the man was driving travelling north on Highway 29 at a high speed and tried to pull it over but it sped away, with police following.
RCMP said the driver then turned off the highway onto a rural road where the vehicle continued to drive at a dangerous speed, despite winter road conditions.
Officers providing backup then saw the vehicle travelling south on Highway 29 before it turned down another rural road, which was a dead end.
That allowed officers to set up a tire deflation device at the intersection of the highway and dead-end road, where it ran over the device. The vehicle veered off the road and came to a stop at the edge of a frozen body of water.
Mounties and a police dog were on the scene when three men got out of the vehicle.
Two were arrested and later released without charges but the third man, who police said was the driver, ran onto the frozen body of water, where he was then arrested.
As well as impaired and dangerous driving, the 22-year-old was also charged with fleeing from police, and resisting police. He appeared in North Battleford Provincial Court on Feb. 23.
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