A 36-year-old man has been charged after an officer clocked him driving 117 km/h in a posted 80 km/h zone in Innisfil, police say.
The officer stopped the vehicle on Innisfil Beach Road to talk to the man, police say, who smelled of cannabis and was driving with a suspended G1 driver’s licence.
The driver admitted to the officer that he had smoked the previous night, police say.
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The officer then tested the man’s saliva and found that he was above zero for a novice driver, police say.
The man was charged with speeding, driving under suspension, possessing a G1 licence and not being accompanied by a qualified driver, failure to surrender a permit, failure to surrender an insurance card and presence of a drug in a novice driver, police say.
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