Drunk driving could have done much more damage than it did on Saturday evening in Saguenay, when the authorities had to intervene for a man who hit several parked vehicles and a drunken individual asleep at the wheel .
The first incident occurred around 11:30 p.m., near a hotel establishment in the Jonquière sector. It was a citizen who contacted the authorities to indicate that a vehicle had struck two others in the parking lot.
The police quickly arrested the driver of the offending vehicle, a 53-year-old man, who appeared to be impaired by alcohol.
“The individual was arrested and taken to the police station where he failed the breathalyzer,” said Sergeant Stéphane Pellerin, of the Saguenay Police Department.
The 50-year-old’s driver’s license was immediately suspended.
Asleep at an intersection
Around 2 a.m., the police on patrol later noticed that a motorist had missed his light cycle, at the traffic light located at the corner of boulevard du Royaume and rue Fillion, still in Jonquière.
Even though the turn signal was on and the traffic light had turned green, the driver didn’t seem to want to engage. Upon disembarking from their patrol car, the police discovered that the 26-year-old man had fallen asleep at the wheel, his foot on the brake.
“They woke up the driver and found that he was really impaired by alcohol. He failed the breathalyzer miserably,” said Mr. Pellerin.