Manitouwadge Women Charged With Impaired Driving
FROM/DE: Marathon OPP Detachment DATE: January 11, 2011
TWO IMPAIRED DRIVING CHARGES FILED OVER THE WEEKEND
MARATHON, ON– January 7, 2011 police responded to a report of a possible impaired driver in Manitouwadge at approximately 2:30pm. At approximately 2:35 pm the suspect vehicle, a beige coloured GMC Envoy was observed on Manitou Rd and a traffic stop was initiated.
Investigation by the officer lead to the driver of the vehicle Linda E. REDDICK age 59 of Manitouwadge, being charged with Exceeding 80 Milligrams of Blood Alcohol While Operating a Motor Vehicle. The accused was released with a court date of February 2, 2011 in Manitouwadge.
January 9, 2010 at approximately 5 pm an officer on patrol near the intersection of Hwy 17 and Hwy 614 initiated a traffic stop on a green Toyota Sienna van. Investigation of the driver Katherine L. BUSWA age 46, of Manitouwadge, led to charges of Exceeding 80 Milligrams of Blood Alcohol While Operating a Motor Vehicle and Drive Motor Vehicle While Disqualified. The accused was released with a court date of April 6, 2011 in Manitouwadge.
Everyone is reminded to call the Ontario Provincial Police Dispatch number of 1-888-310-1122 if they suspect that someone is operating any motor vehicle under the influence of alcohol or drugs.
These signs should provide a painful reminder of the tragic results of drinking and driving - please do not let the pain these signs must bring for those who loved these children be in vain!
From the Editor: It seems perhaps the 2 billboards in our community (pictured above) are becoming too familiar and easy for people to ignore. The beautiful teens pictured on those billboards are not models, the billboards are not just a anti-drinking & driving campaign, they are a memorial, the images of 3 young lives that were ENDED because of a drunk driver. STEVEN PHILIPPE’s family continues grieving (as do his friends and all those whose lives he touched in Manitouwadge and Sudbury) as do the families of his friends. Caitlin Jelley and Jazmine Houle. The three were killed, struck down by a drunk driver while walking on the side of Municipal Road 80 in Hanmer (Sudbury) July 21st, 2009.
The families of these children were brave enough to have their faces used on the billboards in the hopes that other young lives might be saved – let’s not let the pain the must feel every time they visit and see these billboards (or everytime they travel in their own community and see them as there are more than a dozen more of these billboards in the City of Greater Sudbury) be in vain – DRINKING AND DRIVING = LOOSING it’s not just a message on a billboard, it’s the reality Steven Philippe’s Mother, Father, Brother and Sister live with each day and the reality too many other families live with as well – LET’s NOT LET THIS TRAGEDY re-occur in Manitouwadge!
CALL A CAB, WALK, CALL A FRIEND, or STAY THE NIGHT – but DON”t GET BEHIND THE WHEEL IF YOU’ve BEEN DRINKING! (any amount of alcohol!)
