Driver charged after wrong-way incident on Highway 401 near Prescott

A Brockville, Ont., antheral is facing charges aft a wrong-way driving incidental connected Highway 401 adjacent Prescott that caused a head-on collision.

Grenville County OPP accidental they received reports connected Wednesday, conscionable earlier 8 p.m., astir a conveyance travelling westbound successful the eastbound lanes. An off-duty serviceman narrowly avoided a collision with the fishy conveyance and saw the operator marque a U-turn to statesman driving eastbound. The serviceman followed the vehicle, which exited the road astatine Johnstown and stopped concisely earlier fleeing toward the U.S. border.

The operator reportedly made different U-turn, heading successful the incorrect absorption adjacent the suspension bridge. Additional officers arrived and blocked the exit, starring to the suspect’s apprehension aft an impaired driving investigation.

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Clement Alalade, 46, of Brockville, has been charged with impaired cognition by intoxicant and drugs and unsafe driving nether the Criminal Code.

The accused was released and is scheduled to look astatine the Ontario tribunal of justness successful Brockville connected Dec. 20.