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Man on a tractor charged with impaired driving by OPP

OPP say a man driving a tractor was charged with impaired driving. Don Mitchell / Global News

Ontario Provincial Police say a man on a tractor has been charged with impaired driving in the town of Erin.

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Officers were called to a disturbance on Friday evening at a home in the town that is about 30 kilometres east of Guelph.

While they were on their way, officers were told that a suspect had left and was going back to his own home on a farm tractor, OPP said in a news release.

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Police then went to the suspect’s home and, according to the news release, they could tell the man was drunk.

The 60-year-old man was arrested and charged with impaired driving. His driver’s licence was suspended for 90 days and the tractor was impounded for seven days.

He’s scheduled to make a court appearance in Guelph on Oct. 2.

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OPP are reminding the community that if they suspect someone is driving while impaired, either by drugs or alcohol, to call 911 and report it.

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