100 Mile RCMP responded to 87 complaints and calls for service during the past week.
Excessive speed
On April 29, 100 Mile Traffic Services was conducting radar enforcement on Highway 97 south of 100 Mile House.
Two separate vehicles were identified as operating over the posted speed limit by 54 and 52 km/h respectively. Both drivers were issued tickets for excessive speed and both vehicles were towed and impounded for seven days. Neither driver was from the 100 Mile House area.
Trapped in rollover
On April 27, 100 Mile RCMP and 100 Mile Traffic Services responded to a single-vehicle collision on Highway 97 near Ainsworth Road.
The driver of a 2000 Dodge pickup lost control of the vehicle on the bridge deck overpass and impacted the concrete “no-posts.” The vehicle went through the barrier and rolled over the bank.
100 Mile House Fire-Rescue members extricated the three occupants, who had non-life threatening injuries, and were taken by ambulance to hospital. All were treated and released.
The investigation into this collision is continuing.
Driver over limit
On April 26, 100 Mile Traffic Services stopped a Nissan Micra in 100 Mile House in relation to a driving complaint that had been received the previous day.
The male driver displayed symptoms of having consumed liquor and there was open liquor in the vehicle. An approved screening device was administered road-side and the result was a fail.
The driver was detained and returned to the 100 Mile House RCMP detachment where two breath samples were obtained of 160 mg%. Charges of impaired driving and driving over the legal limit are being recommended to Crown against a 56-year-old 100 Mile House man.
