
Roadblocks catch several impaired drivers last weekend in Kamloops
KAMLOOPS – Alexa’s Bus was in Kamloops for a second round and this time roadblocks with the mobile safety unit yielded 13 arrests.
Police stationed the bus, named for Alexa Middlelaer, a four-year-old killed by a drunk driver, at various locations throughout the city this past weekend, May 1 to 2, to check for impaired drivers.
Cpl. Cheryl Bush, a spokesperson for Kamloops RCMP, says 10 drivers were handed immediate roadside prohibitions ranging from three days to 90 days for drinking and driving. Seven of the ten were given 90-day prohibitions. Three others were taken off the road for drug impairment.
Bush says others were ticketed for no insurance, no licenses, not wearing seatbelts, driving contrary to restrictions or being a prohibited driver.
The bus, which is a resource for police agencies across the province, will remain in Kamloops until next week. It will be on public display for Police Week Saturday, May 9, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Sahali Mall.
To contact a reporter for this story, email Glynn Brothen at gbrothen@infonews.ca, or call 250-319-7494. To contact the editor, email mjones@infonews.ca or call 250-718-2724.
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And this is one reason I ride with a proper fit helmet.
inasmuch as drinking and driving is bad, the issue at hand is the definition of “drinking and driving”. government has legal authority [within reason-must be within limits of constitution] to define and redefine words by their authority. For instance; common understanding of the word “accident” is a unintentional collision. However bureaucrats have used word perversion to legally redefine “accident” [MVA]as “a intentional collision” Much the same as bureaucrats redefine the phrase “drinking and driving” from someone who has a blood alcohol level of.08 to now someone who has.05, and it goes even further to even any amount of alcohol admitted consumed no mater the amount or how long ago it was consumed to mean the individual is impaired and deserving of a 24 hour suspension and immediate roadside seizer of vehicle. The problem is…this legislation goes against something called “The Principles of Fundamental Justice”.The Principles of Fundamental Justice:1 Laws shall not be arbitrary.2 Void for Vagueness.3 Overbreadth4 Requirement of Mens Reas.5 Shocks the conscience.6 Right to silence.7 Rejected principles.BC drinking driving legislation has already been found in breach of several of these principles, though no bureaucrat has ever been held responsible, non of the victims of these crimes and the damages they suffered have been addressed. what’s worse is this legislation is before the Supreme court of Canada right his very minute in two different challenges bc bureaucrats still think they are gods that can dictate with impunity. Its only natural if no one is held responsible for dreaming up unconstitutional legislation, like any bully if not stopped only gets worse as its ego grows.The truly sad thing is they use RCMP like puppets to enforce these unconstitutional legislation at the barrel of a gun with Nazi style road checks that has horrible collateral damages to citizens as the legislation arbitrarily, void of vagueness in a excessive overbreadth in the face of lack of Mens Reas shocks the conscience. and if one tries to enforce his right to silence, the mindless terminators are instructed to automatically consider them guilty of impairment on the spot in a shameless display of offence of all of the principles of justice.To make matters worse those very same bureaucrats subrogate grass roots organizations such as MADD and incorporate them to twist themselves into a propaganda machine Stalin would be proud of. Alexa’s bus is based on a fraud; Alexa was not killed by a drunk driver insomuch as she was killed by ignorant engineers who miss built the road with giant speed bumps [cause its all the fashion of engineers these days] that launched the driver’s car off the road and unfortunately ran over Alexa. I shit you not, go read the appeal application that was arbitrarily denied so the truth would be hidden proving with evidence that it was governments fault and their lack of accountability that killed Alexa. True the driver admitted to drinking two glasses of wine, [over several hours] and the initial reading on the side of the road showed.08, BUT the road side screening devices were later found inaccurate and [I think it was a supreme court judgement] ordered that the accused had to be tested at the detachment, [hence Alex’s Bus-so they can do road side retests]. The Accused blood reading was not true, and she was not retested, so hence she was not drunk. but all that has to stay hidden because the death of an Angel so sweet and innocent can’t be found to be the fault of government, no for propaganda purposes Alexa’s death has to be caused by a drunk to justify government’s unconstitutional legislation. For if government EVER admits to a mistake its admission would open a class action suit for damages and worse, government would have to admit it is not a god.No one considers the collateral damages these immediate roadside suspension have on good people, it tears families apart, lost jobs, broken marriages, humiliated, as a result people now live in fear, thus society has been turned into a fear based society.Drunk drivers will always be there because its a disease that can’t be legislated out, same as the gun registry did not stop the criminals from using guns. I am not saying we shouldn’t have laws, on the contrary, the previous.08 was perfect; it allowed a drink or to without being impaired, it was fair and within the Principles of Fundamental Justice.