In order to keep roads and highways safe, police are able to pull over any drivers they suspect are impaired due to drug or alcohol usage. Unfortunately, even if you’ve been drinking far earlier in the evening but feel confident in your driving skills, it is possible that you could blow a warning.
Not quite sure what that means? Here’s everything you need to know about blowing a warning, according to the Government of Ontario:
“If you register a BAC from .05 to .08 (known as the “warn range”), you will receive an immediate driver’s licence suspension.
For a first occurrence, you will be suspended for three days. For a second occurrence in a five-year period, you will be immediately suspended for seven days and you must undergo a remedial alcohol-education program. For a third or subsequent time in a five-year period, you will be immediately suspended for 30 days and you must undergo a remedial alcohol-treatment program and have an ignition interlock condition placed on your licence for six months.
If you choose not to install an ignition interlock device, you must not drive until the condition is removed from your licence. If there is no one else available to drive and no safe place to park your vehicle, it will be towed at your expense.”
Driving while impaired puts both you, and all the other drivers on the road at risk. If you or a loved one have been charged with impaired driving or blowing a warning, contact us today at CBLAW if you are seeking legal counsel.