{"id":60521,"date":"2025-11-24T19:08:41","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T23:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=60521"},"modified":"2025-11-24T19:08:41","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T23:08:41","slug":"east-preston-man-charged-with-impaired-driving-after-hwy-118-collision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=60521","title":{"rendered":"East Preston man charged with impaired driving after Hwy 118 collision"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56506&#8243;]<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>WAVERLEY:<\/strong> A 38-year-old East Preston man faces charges of impaired driving following a collision on Highway 118 in Waverley, police say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The collision took place on Nov. 22 at approximately 7:37 p.m. RCMP officers and fire services from Station 45 and Station 41 responded to a report of a single-vehicle crash on Hwy. 118 northbound in Waverley. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Upon arrival at the scene, officers located an overturned Dodge Ram in the ditch.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The driver and lone occupant of the truck was not physically injured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Responding officers observed the driver, a 38-year-old man from East Preston, displaying signs of impairment and arrested him for impaired driving.\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;56179&#8243;]<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The man was transported to the Lower Sackville RCMP Detachment, where he provided two breath samples; they registered 240 mg% and 230 mg%.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The man was released and will face charges of Impaired Operation of a Conveyance and Impaired Operation of a Conveyance Over 80 mg% when he appears in Dartmouth Provincial Court at a later date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs is never worth the risk.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Impaired driving endangers lives, devastates families and impacts entire communities.\u00a0 Safety is everyone\u2019s responsibility.\u00a0 To report a suspected impaired driver, call 911.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>File #: 25-169601<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56526&#8243;]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WAVERLEY: A 38-year-old East Preston man faces charges of impaired driving following a collision on Highway 118 in Waverley, police say. The collision took place on Nov. 22 at approximately 7:37 p.m. RCMP officers and fire services from Station 45 and Station 41 responded to a report of a single-vehicle crash on Hwy. 118 northbound [&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":[4197,50,4735,52,14,16],"class_list":["post-60521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","tag-east-preston","tag-halifax","tag-hwy-118","tag-impaired-driving","tag-rcmp","tag-waverley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60521","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=60521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60521\/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=60521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}