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SHUBENACADIE:<\/strong> RCMP are commending an 18-year-old driver for their actions on Jan. 28.<\/p>\n\n\n\n East Hants RCMP Const. Preston Burns, the Community Policing Officer, said that at approximately 5 am, an off-duty police officer advised East Hants RCMP they had come across a young adult passed out in the driver\u2019s seat of a car on Hwy 224 in Shubenacadie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThey were concerned that he may be impaired,\u201d said Const. Burns. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhile en route, the responding officer was advised that the vehicle had gotten back on the road but had since pulled over again at another location.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”190″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”87″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”207″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Const. Burns said upon arrival, the officer made contact with the driver.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cHe learned that the 18-year-old was not impaired, but he was on his way into work and was so exhausted that he chose to pull over for a nap,\u201d said Const. Burns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He said too often, motorists will ignore the fact that they are unable to drive safely and continue on, posing a hazard for themselves and others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe 18-year-old was commended for his wise decision,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”78″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”169″]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [adrotate banner=”111″] [adrotate banner=”115″] SHUBENACADIE: RCMP are commending an 18-year-old driver for their actions on Jan. 28. East Hants RCMP Const. Preston Burns, the Community Policing Officer, said that at approximately 5 am, an off-duty police officer advised East Hants RCMP they had come across a young adult passed out in the driver\u2019s seat of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17036,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[965,957],"tags":[6079,196,14,6080,1044,6081,6082],"class_list":["post-42437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-hants","category-news","tag-driver","tag-east-hants","tag-rcmp","tag-rcmp-praise","tag-shubenacadie","tag-sleeping","tag-wise-decision"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42437","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=42437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}