{"id":67053,"date":"2024-05-14T08:00:31","date_gmt":"2024-05-14T12:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=67053"},"modified":"2024-05-14T04:18:29","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T08:18:29","slug":"ssm-opp-three-police-services-respond-to-wrong-way-driver-on-hwy-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/14\/ssm-opp-three-police-services-respond-to-wrong-way-driver-on-hwy-17\/","title":{"rendered":"SSM OPP &#8211; Three Police Services respond to wrong way driver on Hwy 17"},"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-medium wp-image-101\" src=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/OPPCrest-e1501592123859-300x236.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"236\" \/><\/a>On May 9, 2024, shortly after 3:30 a.m., Sault Ste Marie Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) and Batchewana First Nation Police Service with the assistance from the Anishinabek Police responded to a traffic complaint of a blue car travelling in the wrong direction on Highway 17 near Syrette Lake Road within the community of Garden River First Nation.<\/p>\n<p>Batchewana First Nation Police Service observed the blue car travelling westbound in the eastbound double lanes on Highway 17 and initiated a traffic stop on Highway 17 near Trunk Road in the City of Sault Ste Marie.<\/p>\n<p>While speaking to the driver police determined alcohol had been consumed. The driver was arrested and transported to Sault Ste Marie OPP detachment for further testing.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, Bernard DOMINAS, 69 years-of-age from Blandford-Blenheim Township was charged with:<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Operation while impaired-alcohol and drugs<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Operation while impaired-blood alcohol concentration (80 plus)<\/p>\n<p>The accused is scheduled to appear before the Ontario Court of Justice in Sault Ste Marie on June 3, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The car was towed and impounded for seven days with the driver being issued a 90-day Administrative Drivers Licence Suspension.<\/p>\n<p>If you suspect an impaired driver, don&#8217;t hesitate &#8220;MAKE THE CALL&#8221; and call 911.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 9, 2024, shortly after 3:30 a.m., Sault Ste Marie Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) and Batchewana First Nation Police Service with the assistance from the Anishinabek Police responded to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-14 16:56:07","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\/67053","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=67053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67054,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67053\/revisions\/67054"}],"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=67053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}