A number of people were charged during RIDE program on Super Bowl Sunday.
It was a busy night for police across the region, as revellers headed home from celebrating Super Bowl Sunday. In York Region, police say they stopped about 500 vehicles on Sunday, laying eight impaired driving charges.
One person was charged with failing to give a breath sample, and two people were given three-day suspensions.
A little further north, South Simcoe Police arrested one person for impaired driving. Officers there stopped a total of 950 vehicles, where they administered more than 20 roadside tests.
Three people were given three-day suspensions, while one person was charged for drug possession.
Barrie police say they charged a 35-year-old man under the city’s noise bylaw, after a party at a home on Nelson Street moved outside.
