Alleged impaired driver plays bumper cars Friday night in Lower Fairview
By Nelson Daily Staff
The Insurance Cooperation of BC (ICBC) claims department was busy fielding calls from irate owners in Nelson after an alleged impaired driver played bumper cars with parked vehicles in the late hours of Friday (September 26) in Lower Fairview.
Residents living on Maple Street behind Canada Safeway were alerted to the sounds of vehicles being struck by a hit-and-run driver just before midnight Friday.
One of the owners, who had three — car, truck and motorcycle — vehicles hit, told The Nelson Daily the driver slammed into his parked Toyota pickup, before driving into a neighbours car and down the street, leaving a trail of oil on the road.
Nelson police, who received several 9-1-1 calls from residents, located the vehicle and driver near the corner of Front and Cedar Streets minutes later.
The vehicle had stopped because of the damaged sustained in the collisions or the driver would have continued to try and leave the area.
Once in custody the driver was found to be operating the vehicle under the influence of liquor and with an expired foreign license.
In total five parked vehicles, a motorcycle and two roadway signs were damaged.
Fortunately no one was hurt as a result of the series of accidents.
The 23-year-old male is facing charges for impaired driving, failing to remain at the scene of an accident, driving without a license and driving without consideration for others.
Not everyone getting the message not to “drink and drive”
The Nelson Police Department reports that not everyone is getting the message regarding the pitfalls of operating a vehicle under the influence of alcohol.
NPD said between July 1 to September 1 of this year, 15 people in Nelson have been served 90-day roadside prohibitions.
The total is double the number from the same time period last year.
The good news said NPD is that changes to British Columbia’s laws against driving while impaired have reduced fatal crashes as well as ambulance calls and hospital admissions resulting from motor vehicle crashes, according to a recent study.
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