Despite recent awareness and enforcement campaigns connected to the 2019 Festive RIDE season, an alarming number of motorists continue to drive while impaired.
Thunder Bay Police Service officers were originally dispatched to the area of Bruce Street just before 3 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 24 following reports of a hit and run that had just occurred on Beverly Street near Winnipeg Avenue.
A Thunder Bay Police Service officer was travelling Northbound on Cumberland Street at about 10:30 a.m. on Monday, Feb. 24 when he observed a vehicle travelling southbound at a high rate of speed.
Thunder Police Service officers were en route to a call for service just after 5:45 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 18 when they spotted a pick-up truck on Second Avenue about to cross Fort William Road with heavy traffic.
A Thunder Bay Police Service officer was conducting traffic enforcement near the corner of Golf Links Road and Cascade Crescent around 9 a.m. on Thursday, Feb. 6.
The members of the Thunder Bay Police Service Traffic Unit have made some startling morning traffic stops over the course of the past week, and in the process have prevented potentially devastating consequences.
Investment in training for new officers, new drug-testing technologies, and an increase in the number of Drug Recognition Experts, has paid dividends for the Thunder Bay Police Service, as a record number of impaired drivers were arrested and char
The Thunder Bay Police Service has charged a motorist involved in an October 2019 fatal collision involving a pedestrian.
Since the Thunder Bay Police Service launched this year's Festive RIDE program last Tuesday, November 26th, its members have arrested 7 drivers for impaired driving - three of whom were deemed to be impaired by drugs.
The Thunder Bay Police Service’s Traffic Unit would like to remind motorists to drive with extra caution following the first significant snowfall of the season.
