GUELPH – Guelph police say they have charged a 20-year-old man from Orangeville with impaired driving after a vehicle allegedly tried to reverse out of a parking spot with a passenger hanging out of the vehicle’s rear window.
Police say they were alerted to the city’s downtown core at 2:45 a.m. on Saturday and found multiple men dancing on the roof of a parked vehicle.
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Officers say the car began reversing out of its parking spot with one of the passengers hanging out of the vehicle’s rear window as they approached.
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Police say they tried to initiate a traffic stop, but the driver accelerated away from police at a high speed, despite being in a busy area for pedestrians.
When the vehicle eventually came to a stop, officers say made the driver take a breathalyzer test and charged him with dangerous operation.
The man is due in court in October.
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