95-Year-Old Ontario Man Charged With Driving Scooter While Impaired

A 95-year-old Northern Ontario man has been charged with impaired driving after police were called to a traffic hazard last week.
Nipissing West Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) officers responded to a call of a scooter blocking the roadway on Pine Street in West Nipissing Aug. 30 at approximately 1 a.m.
West Nipissing resident Francis Landry has been charged with operation while impaired by alcohol in connection with the incident.
Landry was released and is scheduled to appear at the Ontario Court of Justice on Oct. 3 in North Bay. He was also issued a 90-day driver’s licence suspension.
“The OPP would like to remind the public that if you see a possible impaired driver on our roadways, waterways, or trails … dial 911 as impaired driving never ends well,” police said.
Drivers under the influence of drugs would face the same consequences as drivers affected by alcohol.
A 2022 roadside survey compiled by the province found one in five drivers tested positive for drugs, alcohol, or both.
Cannabis impairment comes in two levels depending upon the amount of THC, the primary psychoactive component of cannabis, in the bloodstream. It is a serious offence to have five nanograms of THC or more per millilitre of blood, the website says. It is a less serious offence to have between two and five nanograms of THC per millilitre of blood.
Those who have used both alcohol and cannabis are considered impaired when 50 milligrams or more of alcohol are found in 100 millilitres of blood combined with 2.5 nanograms or more of THC per millilitre of blood.