{"id":25568,"date":"2021-12-15T12:30:23","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T16:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=25568"},"modified":"2021-12-15T12:30:23","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T16:30:23","slug":"cape-breton-man-issued-ticket-for-driving-the-wrong-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=25568","title":{"rendered":"Cape Breton man issued ticket for driving the wrong way"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;111&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ELMSDALE:<\/strong> A wrong-way driver during the snowstorm on Dec. 8 had East Hants RCMP responding promptly on Dec. 8.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>East Hants RCMP S\/Sgt. Cory Bushell said officers were alerted to a truck on Highway 102 in Elmsdale, pulling a small boat on a trailer heading north bound on the south bound lane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPolice quickly found the truck in the wrong lane, but the vehicle was pulled to the side of the highway,\u201d said S\/Sgt. Bushell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate group=&#8221;2&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;78&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The driver, a 64-year-old Cape Breton man, appeared confused to members on the scene, said S\/Sgt. Bushell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOfficers conducted a roadside screening test; however, the results were negative,\u201d he said. \u201cFor the driver\u2019s safety, and the safety of the motoring public, he was given a 24-hour driving suspension.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>S\/Sgt. Bushell said the driver was also issued a ticket for driving on the wrong side of the highway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;153&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;84&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;111&#8243;] ELMSDALE: A wrong-way driver during the snowstorm on Dec. 8 had East Hants RCMP responding promptly on Dec. 8. East Hants RCMP S\/Sgt. Cory Bushell said officers were alerted to a truck on Highway 102 in Elmsdale, pulling a small boat on a trailer heading north bound on the south bound lane. \u201cPolice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25542,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[965,12],"tags":[1580,196,986,14,2974],"class_list":["post-25568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-hants","category-featured","tag-cape-breton","tag-east-hants","tag-elmsdale","tag-rcmp","tag-wrong-way-driver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25568","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=25568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}