29th annual Operation Red Nose campaign launches in B.C.

This agelong play marked an alarming emergence successful drunk and drug-impaired driving successful Abbotsford, B.C. Police nabbed 19 impaired drivers, including 11 connected Friday nighttime alone.

The 11 drivers were pulled implicit during a four-hour span connected Friday betwixt 8 p.m. and midnight.

“This past week we saw a highly antithetic fig of impaired drivers successful 1 fixed weekend. These numbers are concerning to us,” Abbotsford Police Department (APD) Sgt. Paul Walker said.

Already this year, constabulary person taken 650 impaired drivers disconnected Abbotsford roadways, compared with 842 impaired drivers successful each of 2023.

With the vacation play and related festivities approaching, constabulary are urging drivers to program ahead.

“We worth harmless streets and streets that are escaped from impaired drivers and different unsafe driving behaviours,” APD Chief Colin Watson said.

“Operation Red Nose is 1 of those ways that we enactment towards Abbotsford being the safest assemblage successful British Columbia.”

Operation Red Nose launched its 29th yearly harmless thrust run successful B.C. connected Wednesday.

Motorists tin usage the Operation Red Nose website oregon app to link with volunteers who volition thrust them location successful their ain vehicle.

“Volunteers are the psyche and the driving unit down Operation Red Nose,” said its nationalist improvement co-ordinator, Marie-Chantal Fortin.

“Every twelvemonth they reply the telephone with an unfastened heart, offering their clip and vigor to assistance thousands of radical get location safe.”

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The run runs by donation, and this twelvemonth proceeds volition spell towards a associated inaugural betwixt APD and Restorative Justice called the Traffic Circles Project.

“This task is simply a restorative accidental for young drivers caught breaking circumstantial postulation laws to instrumentality work and to recognize the value of harmless driving habits and being a harmless driver,” Abbotsford Restorative Justice Association enforcement manager Darcy Halber said.

Aside from fatal consequences, impaired drivers tin look contiguous roadside suspensions oregon adjacent transgression charges.

“Each time we deploy retired successful our assemblage looking for impaired drivers,” Walker said.

“We volition beryllium deploying other officers implicit the adjacent respective weeks arsenic we rotation retired stationary roadblocks to assistance with the detection of impaired drivers.”

From Nov. 29 to Dec. 31, the big organizations successful Abbotsford, Chilliwack, Kamloops, Prince George and Williams Lake volition beryllium offering their harmless thrust service.