{"id":55376,"date":"2022-08-10T07:40:05","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T11:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=55376"},"modified":"2022-08-10T07:45:30","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T11:45:30","slug":"nipigon-opp-driver-charged-with-impaired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/10\/nipigon-opp-driver-charged-with-impaired\/","title":{"rendered":"Nipigon OPP &#8211; Driver Charged with Impaired"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/OPPCrest-e1501592123859.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-101\" src=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/OPPCrest-e1501592123859.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"236\" \/><\/a>On August 9th, 2022 at approximately 5:55 p.m., an officer from the Nipigon Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) initiated a traffic stop on Highway 11-17, in the Township of Nipigon after noting suspicious driving behavior.<\/p>\n<p>It was determined the operator of the motor vehicle had been consuming alcoholic beverages. The officer made a demand for an approved screening device breath sample. The driver provided a sample resulting in a fail reading.\u00a0The Driver was placed under arrest and returned to the detachment for further tests.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of the investigation David Charles BENSON, 27, of Nipigon, was charged with:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1x Operation while impaired &#8211; blood alcohol concentration (80 plus), contrary to Section 320.14(1)(b) of the Criminal Code;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The driver&#8217;s licence was suspended for 90 days\u00a0and their vehicle impounded for 7 days.\u00a0The accused was released by way of Appearance Notice with a Nipigon court date on September 13<sup>th<\/sup>, to answer to the charges.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On August 9th, 2022 at approximately 5:55 p.m., an officer from the Nipigon Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) initiated a traffic stop on Highway 11-17, in the Township of Nipigon after noting suspicious driving behavior. It was determined the operator of the motor vehicle had been consuming alcoholic beverages. The officer made a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-northern-ontario"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-18 14:53:09","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55376"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55379,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55376\/revisions\/55379"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}