By Peter McIntyre 107.5 KISSFM
Banning "Cheap Drink" nights at nightclubs may be one way for Vernon to reduce the amount of drunk drivers on the roads. Councillor Patrick Nicol made that suggestion, saying its a "nut show" on the roads the nights those events are held. "It's the young people that go for the cheapest drinks and all the statistics point to those under 24 creating the greatest havoc in terms of death and destruction on the highways." Nicol would like to see the RCMP meet with local nightspot operators to discuss the issue, and come up with some solutions. "If you're going to have those nights, you're going to have to increase the policing or else you're going to have increasing incidents that we've had that are so tragic." In addition to rising impaired driving cases locally, there's also been three crashes this year involving suspected drunk drivers and taxis, one resulting in a fatality.Nicol made his comments after council gave it's approval to a new 32 seat outdoor patio for the Kal Hotel Sports Bar. RCMP have seen fluctuating levels of impaired driving cases this summer but officials agree cases appear to be on the rise. Nine impaired charges were laid this past weekend while 11 drivers were given 24-hour suspensions.
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Maybe councillor NICOL should have been watching the news over the past few years.All we hear is about how the traffic police are concentrating on Impaired Drivers and drug traffickers to see why more drivers are been ticketed. It's great to see our RCMP aggressively arresting drunk drivers and drug traffickers.Maybe they should be spending even more time saving people on our roads and preventing drugs from coming into our city and alot less time chasing the poor homeless people from downtown into our beighborhoods.
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