A number of drunk drivers got hammered during a recent two-day driving blitz east of Kamloops.
RCMP Traffic Services spokesman Cpl. Mike Halskov says the blitz took place along a corridor of the Trans-Canada between Chase and Sorrento.
He says three drivers were given 90-day bans for driving under the influence, while four other drivers were given three-day bans.
“It’s a very busy stretch of the Trans-Canada Highway that is the scene of a number of pretty serious, if not fatal, collisions, during the course of any given year. And we just want to remind people that we’re out there. We want people to see us, that we’re out there conducting enforcement,” Halskov says/
“Over the past month or so, CITS (Central Interior Traffic Services) has modified their shifts to cover-early morning traffic and done some covert call operations in the Chase and Sorrento areas. These operations have resulted in some significant enforcement action that might not have been possible otherwise.”
Halskov says during that two-day blitz, Mounties also handed out 76 seatbelt and cellphone tickets in that stretch of highway. That included one driver being ticketed twice in 20 minutes for not wearing a seatbelt.