From the Bracebridge OPP
Bracebridge Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) has charged a youth with an impaired driving related offence during the early morning hours on Saturday.
On Saturday March 22, 2025, just after 3:00 a.m., a Bracebridge OPP officer was conducting proactive patrols in Bracebridge and stopped a vehicle on Highway 11 South near Cedar Lane. The officer soon commenced an impaired driving investigation and subsequently arrested and charged the driver, a 16-year-old Bracebridge youth with Failure or Refusal to Comply with Demand CC 320.15(1). He will appear in the Ontario Court of Justice-Youth Court in Bracebridge on April 3, 2025, to answer to his charge.
Additionally, the passenger, an 18-year-old Burks Falls man, was charged with a Liquor Licence and Control Act offence for consuming liquor under 19-years of age.
A criminal charge of refusal or failure to comply with a demand in relation to an impaired driving investigation carries the same consequences as an impaired driving/over 80 charge in the Province of Ontario. The accused has had their drivers license suspended for 90-days and their vehicle impounded for 7 days.
If you suspect that someone is driving while impaired by drugs or alcohol, you may call 9-1-1 from your hands free device.
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Sounds like yet another harassing emotionally and psychological time for our youth ..Iam not to old to remember borrowing a couple of labatt blues from my father and going for a little walk ..A man I use to put empty bottles in his mailbox as I strolled by ,passed last week ,a great man and I had a smile remembering my youth
And which genius can We attribute the thought ” kids are smarter today ” ?
Smarter than what ? Parents should be charged with neglect when a 16 year old , even sober , is driving around at 3A.M….