B.C. drunk driver arrested for assault with weapon [Video]

A drunken man who slowly and deliberately ran into a pedestrian before fleeing the scene is facing a 90-day driving ban and potential criminal charges, Mounties on Vancouver Island say.

According to West Shore RCMP, police were called to a report of a hit and run at the Peninsula Co-op gas station on Goldstream Avenue in Langford on the afternoon of Oct. 10.

The 66-year-old motorist had driven his 2005 Mazda 3, a family-sized car, into someone after being confronted about his level of intoxication while behind the wheel, West Shore RCMP said in a release.

He drove his car at a “slow rate of speed” into the person before fleeing the area.

Officers tracked down the runaway driver after being provided the licence plate by witnesses, arresting him for impaired driving and assault with a weapon, the release said.

The man was tested for alcohol and found to have …