{"id":446579,"date":"2026-02-01T05:01:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T05:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/446579\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T05:01:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T05:01:16","slug":"ontario-driver-faces-impairment-charges-fell-asleep-in-middle-of-highway-403","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/446579\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario driver faces impairment charges, fell asleep in middle of highway 403"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>A 23-year-old man is facing <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/impaired-driving\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">impaired driving<\/a> charges after police received multiple calls of a vehicle stopped in the middle lane of an active highway in Hamilton, Ont., late Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Police wrote in a social media post that officers were dispatched to the westbound lanes of <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/highway-403\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Highway 403<\/a> near the Lincoln M. Alexander Parkway at approximately 11 p.m., where they found a man unconscious behind the wheel.<\/p>\n<p>After several unsuccessful attempts to wake him, police broke a window to gain access and check on his condition.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1767930311_275_national.jpg\" alt=\"Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n<p>Get the day&#8217;s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.<\/p>\n<p>The driver showed signs of impairment and was arrested at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Breath tests later revealed readings more than two and a half times the legal limit, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>The Kitchener man was charged with operating a vehicle while impaired by alcohol and drugs and operating with a blood alcohol concentration over the legal limit.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>His driver\u2019s licence was suspended for 90 days, and the vehicle has been impounded for seven days.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11646257\/canadian-military-member-dead-latvia\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1769922075_98_Sebastian-Halmagean-horizontal.png\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tCanadian military member has died while deployed in Latvia, Ottawa says\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11645326\/donald-trump-bombardier-gulfstream-tariffs\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1769922075_575_CP175705708.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tCan Trump decertify aircraft? What experts say amid Bombardier threat\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-video__image\" alt=\"Click to play video: 'OPP officer faces charges, suspension for impaired driving while on duty'\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/OPP_thumb.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   data-\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t0:25<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOPP officer faces charges, suspension for impaired driving while on duty\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2026 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size A 23-year-old man is facing impaired driving charges after police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,42311,184186,87764,44,29679],"class_list":["post-446579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-drunk-driving","tag-highway-403","tag-impaired-driving","tag-news","tag-opp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}