B.C. driver who tried to apprehend suspected impaired driver was impaired: RCMP [Video]

Mounties on Vancouver Island say a 50-year-old motorist who tried to apprehend a suspected impaired driver on New Year’s Eve, was, in fact, impaired and was issued a 90-day driving prohibition by police.

The first driver, meanwhile, who was under investigation for impaired operation of a motor vehicle, was found to be sober but struggling to navigate in the darkness.

The incident occurred around 5:30 p.m. on Dec. 31, when a possible impaired driver was reported to police in Qualicum Beach, according to a statement Friday from the Oceanside RCMP detachment.

Police say the suspected impaired driver had pulled over to the side of Fern Road near Berwick Road, where the second driver arrived and tried to intervene to prevent them from driving away.

“When officers arrived, they smelled alcohol on the breath of the second driver and administered a roadside alcohol screening test, which the driver failed,” according to …