{"id":59380,"date":"2025-10-16T22:03:55","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T01:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=59380"},"modified":"2025-10-16T22:03:55","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T01:03:55","slug":"dartmouth-man-arrested-for-impaired-driving-after-traffic-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=59380","title":{"rendered":"Dartmouth man arrested for impaired driving after traffic stop"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56506&#8243;]<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>LOWER SACKVILLE:<\/strong> A 31-year-old Dartmouth man has been arrested for impaired driving after police stopped him for failure to yield. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>RCMP say that on Oct. 11 at approximately 2:11 a.m., an RCMP officer stopped a Ford Escape on Old Sackville Rd., near Twelve Mile House Lane. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This came after the vehicle failed to yield and turned left in front of the officer.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The officer spoke to the driver about their driving behaviour and observed signs of impairment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A roadside alcohol screening test was administered to which the driver failed.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56530&#8243;]<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56501&#8243;]<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The driver, a 31-year-old man of Dartmouth, was arrested for driving while impaired, and was transported to Lower Sackville RCMP Detachment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the detachment he provided two breath samples, each registering 150 mg% of alcohol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The man was released from custody and is scheduled to appear in Dartmouth Provincial Court at a later date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Drivers who use drugs or alcohol risk their lives and the lives of everyone else on the road when they get behind the wheel. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you believe someone is driving impaired or is otherwise an immediate threat to public safety, call 911.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>File #: 25-147416<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56179&#8243;]<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56526&#8243;]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOWER SACKVILLE: A 31-year-old Dartmouth man has been arrested for impaired driving after police stopped him for failure to yield. RCMP say that on Oct. 11 at approximately 2:11 a.m., an RCMP officer stopped a Ford Escape on Old Sackville Rd., near Twelve Mile House Lane. This came after the vehicle failed to yield and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33399,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,957],"tags":[185,9463,52,13,14],"class_list":["post-59380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","tag-dartmouth","tag-failure-to-yield","tag-impaired-driving","tag-lower-sackville","tag-rcmp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59380","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=59380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59380\/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=59380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}