{"id":17356,"date":"2020-10-15T23:01:04","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T02:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=17356"},"modified":"2020-10-15T23:01:04","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T02:01:04","slug":"impaired-driver-call-turns-out-not-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=17356","title":{"rendered":"Impaired driver call turns out not to be"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;78&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MILFORD:<\/strong> RCMP responded to a report of an impaired driver in the Milford area on Oct. 8&#8211;only it turned out the motorist wasn&#8217;t actually impaired.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>S\/Sgt. Cory Bushell, with East Hants RCMP in Enfield, said a call came in from a concerned motorist that there was an impaired driving on Hwy 2 in the Milford area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Members caught up to the driver, but detected no impairment,&#8221; said S\/Sgt. Bushell. &#8220;The driver was following a GPS and admitted to paying too much attention to the device.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate group=&#8221;8&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He gave drivers who may find themselves in the same scenario.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Motorists are warned that distracted driving comes in many forms\u00a0and is a threat to your safety, the safety of your occupants, your fellow motorists and pedestrians,&#8221; said S\/Sgt. Bushell. &#8220;Please drive safe at all times.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The call was one of 103 the local detachment responded to during the past week, and among those included in the weekly From the Cruiser column.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;84&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;78&#8243;] MILFORD: RCMP responded to a report of an impaired driver in the Milford area on Oct. 8&#8211;only it turned out the motorist wasn&#8217;t actually impaired. S\/Sgt. Cory Bushell, with East Hants RCMP in Enfield, said a call came in from a concerned motorist that there was an impaired driving on Hwy 2 in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[965],"tags":[196,1199,14],"class_list":["post-17356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-east-hants","tag-east-hants","tag-milford","tag-rcmp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}