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Victoria police stop 24 suspected impaired drivers over 2-day blitz

Victoria police operate an impaired driving roadblock in Victoria on July 31, 2021. (VicPD) Victoria police operate an impaired driving roadblock in Victoria on July 31, 2021. (VicPD)
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Police in Victoria are reminding motorists about the dangers of drinking and driving after weekend roadblocks caught 24 suspected impaired drivers, police said Tuesday.

Traffic police ran two roadblocks in Esquimalt and Victoria on Friday and Saturday night.

Nine suspected impaired drivers were taken off the road over a seven-hour period on Friday and 15 more were sidelined over six hours on Saturday.

Police also issued 19 unrelated motor vehicle infraction tickets Friday and 23 tickets on Saturday.

Victoria police said in a statement Tuesday that they had to close Saturday’s roadblock an hour early “due to the amount of administrative work required to document that amount of impaired drivers.”

Each suspected impaired driver’s vehicle was temporarily seized and towed away.

Victoria police say 67 people die each year in B.C. due to impaired driving, with nearly half of those crashes occurring during the summer months.

Victoria police say they plan to continue targeting impaired drivers throughout the summer.

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