Provincial police have charged a snow plow driver with impaired driving after receiving reports from concerned motorists.

The OPP say they were contacted on Saturday, at around 7:30 p.m. over concerns about the driving behaviour of a snow plow on Highway 11, near Doe Lake Road.

Officers were called to the area and found the snow plow, at around 8 p.m. in a ditch on Winhara Road in Gravenhurst.

The driver, a 44-year-old Huntsville man, has been charged with impaired care and control of a motor vehicle, over 80 care and control, and having care and control of a motor vehicle with an open container of liquor. The accused had his licence suspended for 90 days.

He will appear in a Bracebridge court on Jan. 12.