A dump truck driver from Brampton is facing impaired driving charges after police say he rear\u2011ended a vehicle in Whitchurch\u2011Stouffville while operating at more than three times the legal alcohol limit.<\/p>\n
York Regional Police (YRP) were called to Bloomington Road East and Ninth Line shortly before 10:45 a.m. on Monday for reports of a collision involving a dump truck. When officers arrived, they learned the truck had slammed into the back of another vehicle at the intersection.<\/p>\n
The driver of the dump truck was arrested at the scene for impaired operation. Police say breath samples later showed his blood\u2011alcohol concentration was over three times the legal threshold.<\/p>\n
The driver of the other vehicle suffered minor injuries.<\/p>\n
A 34\u2011year\u2011old man from Brampton is now charged with impaired operation \u2014 alcohol and operation with a blood alcohol concentration of 80 plus. He was not identified publicly.<\/p>\n
In a news release, a YRP spokesperson urged drivers to plan ahead, use designated drivers, and avoid getting behind the wheel after consuming alcohol.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information is asked to contact the police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A dump truck driver from Brampton is facing impaired driving charges after police say he rear\u2011ended a vehicle…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":529570,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194339],"tags":[51759,49,48],"class_list":["post-530653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brampton","tag-brampton","tag-ca","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530653","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=530653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}