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Impaired driver blows 4 times over legal limit of alcohol: Northumberland OPP

A Prescott, Ont., woman is accused of driving with four times the legal limit of alcohol in her system. File / Global News

A Prescott, Ont., woman is accused of driving with four times the legal limit of alcohol following a crash last week in Northumberland County.

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Northumberland OPP say on Feb. 14 around 12:30 p.m., officers responded to a traffic complaint involving a sedan that was reportedly unable to drive in a marked lane and nearly caused a collision.

Police say the car then drove into a snowbank on Dale Road in the Municipality of Port Hope.

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Officers found the driver to be under the influence of alcohol, registering four times the legal limit of alcohol.

Christina Leigh Nightingale, 30, of Prescott, Ont., was arrested and charged with operation while impaired with blood over 80 mg.

She was released and is scheduled to appear in court in Cobourg on March 13.

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