Collision involves impaired driver

Press release

(FORT FRANCES, ON) – On March 14 2022, at approximately 1:40 p.m., the Rainy River District Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) received a report of a two vehicle motor vehicle collision on Kings Highway 11 near Five Mile Dock Road, five kilometers east of Fort Frances.  OPP along with the Treaty Three Police Service and the Rainy River District Emergency Services responded to the collision.

Investigation determined that a motor vehicle collided another motor vehicle at that location..

As a result, a 39-years-old Fort Frances man was charged with the following offences: Operation While Impaired and Operation While Impaired – Blood Alcohol Concentration (80 plus).

The accused is scheduled to appear before the Ontario Court of Justice in Fort Frances on April 25, 2022 to answer to the charges.