Ontario is investing almost two and a half million dollars in the campaign to end driving while impaired.
Funding is through the government’s Reduce Impaired Driving Everywhere Grant to help police services across the province detect impaired drivers
and get them off the road.
More than 170 police services will receive the money to help them conduct regular roadside spot-checks and education campaigns needed to detect impaired drivers.
In the last decade in Ontario, more than 1,700 lives have been lost and over 25,000 people injured in collisions involving an impaired driver. Authorities say with the recent legalization of recreational cannabis, roadside spot-checks are even more crucial.
