{"id":48364,"date":"2024-09-14T07:18:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-14T10:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=48364"},"modified":"2024-09-14T07:18:00","modified_gmt":"2024-09-14T10:18:00","slug":"milford-woman-faces-impaired-driving-charges-after-mvc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=48364","title":{"rendered":"Milford woman faces impaired driving charges after mvc"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;111&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;78&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>MAIN PHOTO: An RCMP vehicle with its lights on. (Healey photo)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>EAST UNIACKE:<\/strong> A 24-year-old Milford woman is facing impaired driving charges following a single-vehicle collision in East Uniacke, RCMP said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Const. Preston Burns, Community Policing Officer with East Hants RCMP, said that police and fire, along with EHS, responded to the call for the mvc on Sept. 9 at approximately 9 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It took place on Highway 354 in East Uniacke, Const. Burns said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Const. Burns said upon arrival officers could see a black sedan had landed in the ditch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;190&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;115&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said the driver told officers they had swerved to avoid hitting a deer and lost control. They were not injured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhile the RCMP officer was interacting with the driver, he noted signs of impairment by alcohol,\u201d said Const. Burns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The officer demanded the woman provide a sample of their breath on the approved roadside screening device (ASD).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The result was a \u201cfail\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate group=&#8221;2&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;210&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;92&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The woman was subsequently arrested for impaired driving and brought to the Enfield Detachment where they provided two more samples of their breath.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The results were 130 mg% and 140mg% respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Samantha Strome, 24, of Milford, has been charged with Impaired Driving related offences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Strome will appear in court at a later date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;218&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;221&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;111&#8243;] [adrotate banner=&#8221;78&#8243;] MAIN PHOTO: An RCMP vehicle with its lights on. (Healey photo) EAST UNIACKE: A 24-year-old Milford woman is facing impaired driving charges following a single-vehicle collision in East Uniacke, RCMP said. Const. Preston Burns, Community Policing Officer with East Hants RCMP, said that police and fire, along with EHS, responded to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18663,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[965,12],"tags":[1943,7373,52,1199,63,14],"class_list":["post-48364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-hants","category-featured","tag-east-uniacke","tag-highway-354","tag-impaired-driving","tag-milford","tag-mvc","tag-rcmp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48364","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=48364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}