Image: Supplied by B.C. RCMP / Motorists should expect to see impaired driving road checks starting at 7 p.m. tonight (Dec. 3) in Chilliwack and Metro Vancouver, as police kick off a "Light Up the Highway" initiative designed to remove high-risk impaired drivers from Lower Mainland roads.

By Mike Vanden Bosch

Chilliwack RCMP

Expect DUI road checks tonight in Chilliwack, Metro Vancouver

Dec 3, 2022 | 9:24 AM

CHILLIWACK — The Christmas season ushers in a number of events, particularly seasonal gatherings, work-related parties, venues hosting Santa, and hustling to get gifts for loved ones.

But police often associate December with the time when people make poor choices to drive while impaired, often with tragic consequences.

According to a news release from the B.C. RCMP, the B.C. Association of Chiefs of Police (BCACP) has partnered with ICBC to support CounterAttack, a month-long Impaired driving enforcement campaign throughout December.

The campaign kicks off tonight (Dec. 3) at 7 p.m. in Chilliwack and stretches all the way to West Vancouver. Police throughout the Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley will be having coordinated impaired driving road checks.

Motorists should expect to see coordinated impaired driving road checks in what it calls “Light Up the Highway.”

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“While motorists should expect Light Up the Highway to cause some minor traffic delays, this event is meant to raise public awareness of the dangers and consequences of driving while impaired by alcohol and/or drugs,” the B.C. RCMP said in a news release Friday (Dec. 2).

Last year in B.C., 66 people lost their lives as a result of a fatal collision that was the result of alcohol and/or drug impairment. This number of fatalities is actually above the average of the last five years, which is 64.

“Impaired driving can have tragic results, but it doesn’t have to be that way. Impaired driving is completely preventable if drivers make good decisions before and after consuming alcohol and/or drugs,’ said Chief Superintendent Holly Turton, the Officer in Charge of the B.C. Highway Patrol and co-chair of the BCACP Traffic Safety Committee.

by Mike Vanden Bosch

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