5 impaired drivers suspended after weekend road checks in Iqaluit
Officers note increase in designated drivers compared to previous week, according to city news release
Municipal enforcement held another weekend road safety blitz Dec. 1 and 2 and took five drivers off the road for impaired driving. (File photo)
Five drivers were pulled off the road for impaired operation of a vehicle after City of Iqaluit municipal enforcement officers carried out sobriety and road safety tests on Dec. 1 and 2.
Numerous drivers were also cited for traffic violations, including six without valid insurance, two whose vehicles were driving 17 to 29 km/h over the speed limit, and one driver engaging in stunt activity, according to a news release issued by the city Tuesday.
The five drivers taken off the road were each issued immediate roadside suspensions and 24-hour licence suspensions. Two were taken into custody by RCMP for further investigation.
It was the second weekend in a row that the City of Iqaluit partnered with the RCMP to conduct sobriety and road safety tests.
Despite a total of 32 citations for violations being handed out during the most recent road checks, the city release noted enforcement officers saw a higher number of designated drivers this past weekend compared to previous evening shifts.
It’s a “development we appreciate,” states the release.
During the previous road checks on Nov. 24 and 25, mechanical and cleanliness inspections were also carried out on eight taxis, according to a city release.
One taxi driver was charged under the Liquor Act of Nunavut with unlawfully transporting, carrying or having liquor in a taxi.
At the last city council meeting on Nov. 28, Iqaluit’s chief administrative officer Steve England said the city will soon start talks with the territorial government and RCMP to establish a public safety program.
“It’s beyond just drinking and driving, there’s many other issues, such as public drinking,” England said at the meeting.
At that meeting, Coun. Kyle Sheppard called for more to be done to curb drinking and driving, saying his council colleagues and people in the community “are quite fed up with it.”
In its regular monthly report to council that night, RCMP said officers laid 98 impaired driving charges between January and the end of October, a small decrease from the 104 charges laid during the same period last year.
Please come and get the drunks off the roads in Nunavik. Kuujjuaq is the worse as I passed through and saw. There’s more head injuries now. Cost of medical evacuation is breaking the account. Cost of social turmoil is staggering. There’s those cars and trucks that go off into the ditch, and the drunks still drive them, no bumpers, windows cracked right over the drivers view. It’s a sight to see one on these old beat up survival from the ditch, iron, rubber and metal coming towards you on the road. And you see them proudly driving by, just about to bring up in a rock or a bank, or worse some kid walking by or riding a bicycle. And you have a bunch of know it all , blaming it on helmets for the lack on AtV s, yes AtV too, but blaming it on government, not enforcing helmets in lieu of not dealing with drunks. The society is full speed downward, and not a clue. Death destruction and damage people in wheel chairs from accident while driving drunk. Over and out.
Saw , the air ambulance fly into town 3 times last week.
Are there any leaders in the community of kuujjuaq? What are they doing ? The town is gone coo coo. The drunks outnumbering sobered people. The coop only opens intently for alcohol sales, and then it’s party, drives, accidents and police and ambulance. To jail or to hospital. It’s about time some funds be allocated to entrepreneurs to develop a kuujjuaq monopoly game. The corner squares, go to jail, or go to hospital. Purchase coop or landholding corner store on other blocks of real estates. Teachers at K I could use the game in school to bring the sad message to their students about the real life in the Inuit community of kuujjuaq. Look kids this is your future.
It’s like a cartoon. There you have a jet brining in booze, and another jet picks up the mess from the drunks and takes them to court , jail, or intensive care. Seen from space, alien ship and crew don’t think much smarts about such. It looks stupid because it is stupid.
A couple checked in for a fight to montreal in the morning , went home got drunk, went back in the afternoon to bord the flight , where not allowed on , took drunk , TWICE !!!
Yes, they trying to get away to Montreal from their pathetic life . They’re the ones we read about in the jaws of Montreal waste lands.
The municipality of kuujjuaq should cracked down on speed by the sewage and water delivery truck drivers. The potential for a serious accident is very high. This could mean fatalities, serious injuries, and law suits. Hope they keep cracking down on drunks in all vehicles.
I m thank full , that at least some of these guys show up for work !!!!!
The next time you go to kuujjuaq, or maybe you live there. Just take a look around , like go for a drive around the village. Specially to observe the accidented vehicles alongside the houses. You might have to look for them, some are hidden , in shame out around the back or side of the house. They look like something out of the Iraq war , or something that got hit in the Ukrainian war with Russian tanks. It’s unbelievable how they’re beat up. Never to be driven again. Many of them are new, payments still holding with the bank or financial institutions. As you look at these unbelievable wrecks, think about the medical madness and the alcohol purchase and the party of the night ,and drugs and family breakdown. Scarred for life as seen by the side of the house speaking out horrifying depleted human wellbeing.
Would it be cheaper for tax payers if the challenger was based in kuujjuaq.?,. I think it would save money in the long run. It’s a bird, no it’s air Inuit, Canadian north, no it’s the same jet as last night, it’s the Quebec challenger, picking up another coop member. But wait, it would have to be summons from the south, it will be already in kuujjuaq , ready for coop after effects of alcohol, or maybe landholding beer customers who broke out in wild rage again.
People don’t have any self respect, pride or dignity, driving around in old accidented cars and trucks. Police should put them off the road, it’s hazard and dangerous to public safety, where public safety anyway ? Isn’t that some funded department at kRG? But imagine driving around peeping out the side of your broken, cracked windows, especially windshield. Tell these idiosyncratic, if you know them to get off the roads.
😃 about dam time
You don’t know Jack
Lots of jacks on the roads, some jacks get pulled over. That’s it that’s all. But think about the Johnny or Susie that never got pulled over, now in jail and hospital, or graveyard.
It’s great this is being done, there has been numerous weekends where you see crashed vehicles in town, it was almost every other weekend, death waiting to happen. Hopefully this sends a message before it’s too late, don’t be stupid, don’t drink and drive. Kids are also seeing adults behave like this, need to be a better example.
Hope the city also considers doing something about the hard drugs, teens are getting into it. It’s awful and something needs to be done before it gets out of control. Are locals getting engaged to stop this? Hope this is in everyone’s radar cuz it’ll just cause more suffering.
Taima!
Judge Dredd!!! Where are you when we need you!!!