The week four and final stats for the RCMP’s Holiday Checkstop Program have been released.
In week four, the RCMP had 80 checkstops, checking over 2190 vehicles.
Those checks resulted in 20 people being charged with a criminal code impaired driving offence, 16 for alcohol and 4 for refusal.
The highest blood/alcohol reading was 0.22 and 7 alcohol or drug related-tiered administrative roadside suspensions were issued.
Week four in 2019 was a major increase from 2018’s week 4 where the RCMP conducted 47 checkstops, checked approximately 1400 vehicles, and charged 29 people with Criminal Code Impaired Driving offences.
Moving on to the final stats for the 2019 program, the RCMP set up 386 checkstops and checked 11,477 vehicles in December.
The RCMP charged 80 people with impaired driving, 67 for alcohol, 2 for drug, and 11 for refusal, they issued 24 alcohol-related tiered suspensions, 3 drug-related tiered suspensions, and issued 17 immediate roadside prohibitions, 6 warns, 9 fails, and 2 refusals.
11 people lost their lives in 9 traffic-related collisions during the program.
Comparing this to the 2018 program, the stats were fairly even.
The RCMP checked 11,714 vehicles during 262 checkstops. RCMP charged 105 people with a Criminal Code Impaired Driving offence and issued an additional 32 alcohol and drug-related tiered suspensions. There were five traffic-related fatalities during last year’s Checkstop program.
