{"id":87240,"date":"2026-10-15T08:16:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T12:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=87240"},"modified":"2026-10-15T08:16:25","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T12:16:25","slug":"ssm-opp-driver-stopped-for-speeding-also-charged-with-impaired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/15\/ssm-opp-driver-stopped-for-speeding-also-charged-with-impaired\/","title":{"rendered":"SSM OPP &#8211; Driver Stopped for Speeding &#8211; Also 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 September 18, 2026, at approximately 2:16 a.m., an officer with the Sault Ste. Marie Ontario Provincial Police was conducting general patrol on Highway 17 in Garden River, when they observed a vehicle travelling at a high rate of speed near Belleau Lake Road. The vehicle was recorded travelling 122 km\/h in a construction zone with a posted speed limit of 70 km\/h.<\/p>\n<p>A traffic stop was conducted, and investigation determined the vehicle driver had consumed alcoholic beverages. As a result, Harnoor SINGH, 23 years-of-age, of Sault Ste. Marie was arrested and charged with:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Drive motor vehicle &#8211; perform stunt &#8211; excessive speed<\/li>\n<li>Drive motor vehicle with open container of liquor<\/li>\n<li>Operation while impaired &#8211; alcohol and drugs<\/li>\n<li>Operation while impaired &#8211; blood alcohol concentration (80 plus)<\/li>\n<li>Fail to have insurance card<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The accused is scheduled to appear before the Ontario Court of Justice on November 2, 2026 in Sault Ste. Marie. The accused was issued a 90-day Administrative Drivers Licence Suspension and the vehicle was impounded for 14 days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On September 18, 2026, at approximately 2:16 a.m., an officer with the Sault Ste. Marie Ontario Provincial Police was conducting general patrol on Highway 17 in Garden River, when they observed a vehicle travelling at a high rate of speed near Belleau Lake Road. The vehicle was recorded travelling 122 km\/h in a construction zone &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":75103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-district"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-22 10:21:07","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\/87240","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=87240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87241,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87240\/revisions\/87241"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}