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MILFORD:<\/strong> A 28-year-old East Hants man has been charged with impaired driving following a single-vehicle collision near Milford on May 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Staff Sgt. Michael Balmaceda said that around 9:30 p.m., East Hants RCMP, along with local fire and EHS, responded to several reports that 911 dispatch had received about the collision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It was said to have taken place on Hwy 102 near exit 8 & 9 (Elmsdale and Milford).<\/p>\n\n\n\n ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”115″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”78″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n S\/Sgt. Balmaceda said officers quickly made a determination on scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cUpon arrival, the officers determined that the person on the side of the road had been in care and control of the vehicle during the collision,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The 28-year-old resident of East Hants failed the roadside screening device and was arrested for impaired driving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The driver subsequently failed a breath test at the RCMP Enfield Detachment, blowing more than double the legal limit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”238″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate group=”2″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n As of December 18, 2018, police no longer require a reasonable suspicion to demand a breath sample from a driver.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Anyone operating a motor vehicle who is lawfully stopped by police can be required to provide a breath sample, at the roadside, to detect potential alcohol in their blood. \\<\/p>\n\n\n\n Failure to comply with this demand will also result in criminal charges which carry the same, or greater, penalties as driving while impaired.<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”218″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”87″]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [adrotate banner=”111″] [adrotate banner=”190″] MILFORD: A 28-year-old East Hants man has been charged with impaired driving following a single-vehicle collision near Milford on May 10. Staff Sgt. Michael Balmaceda said that around 9:30 p.m., East Hants RCMP, along with local fire and EHS, responded to several reports that 911 dispatch had received about the collision. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33399,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[965,957],"tags":[2590,196,62,52,1199,63,14,8374],"class_list":["post-55653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-hants","category-news","tag-drunk-driving","tag-east-hants","tag-hwy-102","tag-impaired-driving","tag-milford","tag-mvc","tag-rcmp","tag-twice-the-legal-limit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55653","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=55653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}