Police say they issued over 700 tickets to people on their way to and from the Shambhala Music Festival on the last weekend in July.<\/p>\n
This enforcement effort in the West Kootenay mountains spanned four days, with speeding being the most frequently cited violation.<\/p>\n
The authorities also reported that police issued more than 80 tickets for driving under the influence of drugs.<\/p>\n
As festival-goers departed, the BC Highway Patrol collaborated with the Nelson Police to monitor for impaired driving and unsafe vehicle.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe temperatures were high and a little uncomfortable for officers working long days in full uniform,\u201d said Cpl. Michael\u00a0McLaughlin.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut it is clear this enforcement was necessary. Police officers were particularly concerned about getting impaired drivers and unsafe vehicles off the road.\u201d<\/p>\n
This resulted in 60 vehicles being towed for mechanical safety or driver impairment.<\/p>\n
The annual festival, held in Salmo, typically draws around 20,000 electronic dance music enthusiasts each year.<\/p>\n
This year\u2019s festival was held from July 25 to 28.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police say they issued over 700 tickets to people on their way to and from the Shambhala Music…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-49092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49092","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=49092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}