Port Saunders and Rocky Harbour RCMP are waiting on the results of blood demands issued to the drivers involved in two separate motor vehicle collisions that happened on March 24, 2020.
At approximately 1:40 a.m., Port Saunders RCMP received a report of a single snowmobile collision on Wigwam Pond in Port au Choix. The driver, a 20-year-old man of Port au Choix, and the passenger, an 18-year-old woman of Hawkes Bay, were taken to Rufus Guinchard Health Centre in Port Saunders for treatment of non-life threatening injuries.
Police attended the hospital, spoke to both occupants and arrested the driver for impaired driving by alcohol. He was provided a blood demand for an analysis of alcohol. A blood sample was collected and the investigation is continuing.
At approximately 9:30 p.m., Rocky Harbour RCMP were dispatched to a single-vehicle collision. A truck struck a fire hydrant and went down over a bank near the fish plant in Rocky Harbour. The driver, a 77-year-old Rocky Harbour man, was arrested at the scene for impaired driving. He was taken to Bonne Bay Health Centre for treatment of non-life threatening injuries.
Police accompanied the man to the hospital and provided him with a blood demand for an analysis of alcohol. A blood sample was collected and the investigation is continuing.
Officers are waiting for the results of the blood samples to determine if charges of impaired driving will be laid against either of drivers.
RCMP NL continues to fulfill its mandate to protect public safety, enforce the law and ensure the delivery of priority policing services in Newfoundland and Labrador.