A Cobourg woman faces charges including impaired driving following a fender-bender with a police cruiser on Tuesday night.
Cobourg Police Service say around 9:35 p.m., officers responded to the Division Street area on a report of a suspected impaired driver.
As officers conducted a traffic stop, the woman allegedly reversed her vehicle and struck the front-end of a police cruiser, causing minor damage.
Get daily National news
No one was injured, police said.
Police investigated and determined the driver was under the influence of alcohol.
Lorraine West, 50, of Cobourg, was arrested and charged with operation while impaired, novice driver with a blood-alcohol concentration above zero, failure to comply with a probation order, failure to surrender a permit for a motor vehicle, failure to notify a change of address for a licence and failure to surrender an insurance card.
- Winnipeg drug initiative leads to 55 arrests, treatment referrals and detox placements
- Key figure in Pearson airport gold heist testifying at trial of another accused man
- Lost evidence in 1988 cold case leads to murder charge being withdrawn
- Selma Blair charged with assault after allegedly attacking flight attendants
She was released with a pending court date in March, police said.
Comments
Comments closed.
Due to the sensitive and/or legal subject matter of some of the content on globalnews.ca, we reserve the ability to disable comments from time to time.
Please see our Commenting Policy for more.