Impaired driver pulls over, calls cops on himself

TORONTO – An Ontario police officer with 38 years of experience said he’s never seen or heard of an impaired driver doing what a 55-year-old man near Windsor did on Tuesday morning.

The man was driving on Highway 3 in Essex County at around 10 a.m.. Police don’t know where he was headed but he stopped, pulled over to the side of the road, and called the cops to turn himself in.

“He, for whatever reason, pulled off to the side of the road and said he was too drunk to drive and described the vehicle to the police and said ‘I’ll put my four way flashers on,’” Constable Kevin O’Neill said in an interview Thursday.

The driver was still talking to police on the phone when officers showed up.  Donald Dummer, 55, was arrested and charged with impaired driving. He’s expected to appear in court on April 7.

Police allegedly found open liquor in the car.

“We hear bizarre things all the time and for as long as I’ve been a police officer for, I’ve never heard anybody call in and say ‘I’m drunk, here’s where I’m at.”

“I’ve never heard of it, not saying this has ever happened before, but it’s like I’ve told other people do absolutely ridiculously stupid things when they’ve been drinking, and this is just another example.”

O’Neill said police are just glad they got him off the road before anyone was hurt.

“I’m quite sure that this guy is going to have some second thoughts about what he does, or what he did, simply because he’s got a long road ahead of him now.”