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Tag Archives: Drunk Driving
July proves the most deadly month for impaired driving, SGI
When Adam Smith showed up to open his brewery's doors on Thursday, he said he was totally fine seeing a customer's vehicle parked outside overnight. "That makes me super happy to see that someone came...
Jun 29, 2024 Adam Smith, owner of Malty National Brewing Corp., said he feels an obligation to make sure people are drinking alcohol responsibly. (Gillian Massie/ 980 CJME)
Cannabis surpasses alcohol at sobriety checkpoints in Saskatoon
On a cold and rainy Saturday night in Saskatoon, police set up a checkstop underneath an overpass just off Highway 11 heading north into the city limits. Their goal for the checkstop was to make sure ...
Oct 03, 2023
April brings focus to reporting impaired drivers
By Steven Wilson For the month of March, SGI and law enforcement throughout Saskatchewan put the traffic safety spotlight on impaired driving, specifically how the limit for criminal charges - .08 - i...
Apr 04, 2023 (Regina Police Service/Twitter)
SGI: Police charge 330 impaired drivers in February
The latest numbers from SGI show impaired driving remains problematic in the province. In its February edition of the Traffic Safety Spotlight, the Crown insurer said police reported 330 cases of impa...
Mar 19, 2021
Woman faces impaired driving charge after east-end crash
A 23-year-old woman faces two counts of impaired driving causing bodily harm after a crash Saturday night sent two people to hospital. Regina police say in a news release that the crash happened at Pr...
Dec 08, 2020 (980 CJME file photo)
Drunk driver involved in fatal crash in 2014 released from prison
A man who drove drunk in Regina in 2014 and ended up killing another driver in a crash is being granted his statutory release. In June 2014, Brian Okemahwasin was driving drunk in Regina on Albert Str...
Jun 09, 2020 (980 CJME file photo)
Van de Vorst family looks to hold convicted drunk driver to promises as day parole granted
Lou and Linda Van de Vorst aren’t too pleased about the prospect of Catherine McKay being granted day parole just over four years after she drove drunk and took the lives of their son, his wife ...
Apr 03, 2020
Woman charged with drunk driving after vehicle smashes through building
An 18-year-old woman has been charged with drunk driving after somebody drove into a building on Dewdney Avenue near Pasqua Street early Sunday morning. According to Regina police, the incident was re...
Mar 29, 2020 Regina police charged a woman with drunk driving after she allegedly smashed into the Come and Learn Regina Aboriginal Head Start Centre early on March 29, 2020. (Evan Radford/980 CJME)
Charges upgraded in fatal crash near Aberdeen
The RCMP has announced more charges against a driver involved in a deadly crash near Aberdeen last month. Tyler Seeley, 34, is now facing two charges of drunk driving causing death, along with other a...
Feb 20, 2020
Regina police officer sentenced for drunk driving
It hasn't even been two months since the crash, but on Thursday a Regina police officer pleaded guilty to drunk driving and was sentenced. On Aug. 21, police responded to a crash on Lewvan Drive at Ha...
Oct 18, 2019 (980 CJME file photo)
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