OPP charge passenger with impaired driving

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The Canadian Press
Date: Tuesday May. 24, 2011 6:03 PM ET


KING TOWNSHIP, Ont. — Provincial police say the passenger in a vehicle involved in a single-vehicle collision on Highway 400 is facing charges.
Police say a car swerved and hit the cement centre guard rail on the highway south of Aurora Road.


There were two people in the vehicle at the time of the collision on Monday night.
Investigators say the passenger -- Robert Szylak, 31, of Oakville, Ont. -- is charged with impaired driving, failure to provide a breath sample and dangerous driving.

The 31-year-old driver, from Toronto, is charged with driving while under suspension
 
What, was the driver on a suspended G1 license or something? I don't get it.
 
Do police just make up the rules as they go? or is there more to this story?

Between this and the 2 stroke ticket thread for smoke its no wonder average citizens are afraid of police.
 
next time run, even if u are a passenger :rolleyes:
 
Perhaps the cop was impaired.
Guess there are more details to come out on this story.
 
Makes you wonder what would have happened if there were 2 more impaired 'passenger-drivers' in the car.
 
I think I saw this once in a Law & Order episode a long time ago ... 2 people charged with murder although there was one bullet ... thought fiction was derived from reality and not the reverse.
 
THis was a guy at works buddy.
The passnger was drunk and owner of the car, driver didnt want the other guy to dui so he decides to drive the car on a suspended licence. They get in some kind of argument and the drunk pqssenger grabs the wheel and steers off the road. Its a really messed up situation to be in
 
Too bad they did not post the whole story. Cops should have ensured that eihter the complete story be told, or none of it published. There is obviously more to the story than what was published.
 
As soon as the drunken passenger grabbed the steering wheel, he was guilty of impaired as far as I'm concerned.
 
FiReSTaRT said:
As soon as the drunken passenger grabbed the steering wheel, he was guilty of impaired as far as I'm concerned.
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Yes that would explain it. Although its pretty shoddy journalism to print what they did as it made no sense given the lack of details.
 
AdRath said:
Yes that would explain it. Although its pretty shoddy journalism to print what they did as it made no sense given the lack of details.
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That is true, but the "journalist" wouldn't have much of a story had he reported the truth in its entirety :cool:
 
It was so bad this long weekend on the way up north, that I actually seen an unmarked police cruiser pulling over an OPP cruiser.
 
Araqiels said:
It was so bad this long weekend on the way up north, that I actually seen an unmarked police cruiser pulling over an OPP cruiser.
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And this is why i did not do a group ride last weekend.
 
While I can't find the original incident report, online, I can think of two reasons why both were charged. The first is what others have said; passenger grabbed the wheel, forcing them off-road. The second is that they might have been naming each other, as the driver, because neither should have been driving. Charge 'em both and let the courts work it out.
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