Ottawa Injury Lawyer: Avoiding Ottawa Drunk Driving Accidents

As an Ottawa personal injury lawyer, I know that alcohol-related car accidents in Ottawa over the winter holidays are serious. The Ontario government has agreed to provide $50,081.34 to fund this year’s RIDE program.  The RIDE program provides impaired driving spot checks on Ontario roads, including in Ottawa.  This is the second year across Ontario that 8,000 officers will be funded to conduct the spot checks.  This is more than double the number of officers who were on the road two years ago.

In 2008-9, Ontario police conducted 784,000 spot checks, resulting in 970 impaired driving charges and 1,900 12-hour license suspensions.

As you begin to plan your winter holiday outings, please take care to plan your trip home!!  A little planning can help you avoid serious criminal charges, or something much worse.

If you have suffered an injury as a result of an impaired driver, contact a personal injury lawyer at Auger Hollingsworth for a free consultation.  Call 613 233-4529 or email [email protected].

About the Author: Brenda Hollingsworth

Brenda Hollingsworth co-founded Ottawa’s Auger Hollingsworth in 2005 with her husband Richard Auger. Together, their mission was to create a personal injury law firm for Eastern Ontario that is unrivalled in the province for customer service and legal expertise. Brenda was named an Ottawa Business Journal Forty Under 40 award recipient and took home the Women’s Business Network’s Businesswoman of the Year award in the Professional category. She was also recognized as one of Ottawa Life Magazine’s “Top 50 People in the Capital.” She is often quoted as an expert and has appeared in media outlets such as CTV, The Globe and Mail, National Post, Ottawa Citizen, Sun Media, CBC, Toronto Star, Montreal Gazette, CFRA and many legal publications.

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