RCMP officers check commercial drivers for impairment at Confederation Bridge

Delaney Kelly · CBC News

· Posted: Mar 14, 2025 7:32 PM EDT | Last Updated: 8 minutes ago

More than 100 commercialized conveyance drivers were checked for signs of alcohol impairment this week successful astonishment mandatory investigating astatine the Confederation Bridge that links Prince Edward Island and the mainland.

Cpl. Gavin Moore, media relations serviceman for the RCMP on P.E.I., said this was the archetypal clip the unit had conducted an cognition of this size and standard for commercialized vehicles astatine the bridge. 

"Every commercialized conveyance that traveled done that country was stopped and each operator had to supply a enactment sample," Moore said. 

"We admit that commercial vehicles being the size [and] weight that they are, it does airs an further information to the nationalist should idiosyncratic get down the instrumentality and not beryllium sober."

Moore said conducting sobriety screenings is simply a mode to discourage drivers from driving erstwhile impaired by intoxicant oregon drugs, noting that impaired driving is 1 of the 3 starring causes of fatal crashes successful P.E.I. 

"Anybody who whitethorn beryllium going to marque the mediocre prime of impaired driving... their perceptions of being caught plays a large origin successful their decision-making," helium said.  

The superior intent of the screening was to trial for sobriety, Moore said, but constabulary were checking for different imaginable offences arsenic well. A handful of offences nether the Highway Traffic Act were detected, helium said. 

After the cognition was complete, officers went connected to conduct non-mandatory testing nearby and arrested 2 drivers nether the power of cannabis successful the Borden-Carleton area. 

Moore said assemblage members should not hesitate to telephone 911 oregon the constabulary if they fishy idiosyncratic impaired is driving oregon astir to drive.