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Good Samaritan Reports Suspected Impaired Driver

Police are thanking a Good Samaritan who helped to take an alleged drunk driver off the road.

The Ontario Provincial Police said officers received a report about a suspected impaired driver and located the vehicle on Queens Line on Thursday shortly after midnight.

As a result, a 40-year-old Chatham man is now charged with impaired operation of a vehicle, impaired operation of a vehicle with a blood alcohol concentration over 80 mg, driving while prohibited, failing to comply with a probation order, and having care or control of a vehicle with an open container of liquor.

The driver was also issued a 90-day driver’s licence suspension and his vehicle will be impounded for seven days.