B.C. man ticketed for driving pink Barbie Jeep while impaired during morning commute

A Prince George, B.C., man acquired a 90-day driving prohibition after he was noticed by police driving an uncommon automobile on a avenue on Friday morning.

On Sept. 5, an officer was on patrol within the space of fifteenth Avenue and Nicholson Road at 9 a.m. after they noticed a person driving a pink toy automotive down the road.

“Whereas this may occasionally appear to be one thing that ought to have flown beneath the radar, it was sort of out of the strange, in addition to this can be a busy space throughout morning commute and put different drivers on the highway in danger, as effectively that exact driver himself,” Cpl. Jennifer Cooper, media relations officer for the Prince George RCMP instructed International Information.

“Motorists aren’t used to searching for somebody sort of at that stage, the toy automotive stage. So it was sufficient to start out a site visitors cease.”

The toy seems to be a Energy Wheels Barbie Jeep Wrangler.

Throughout the cease, the police officer believed the motive force to be impaired and located that the motive force had a suspended licence.

The driving force was arrested for prohibited driving and he then supplied two breath samples that had been each over the authorized restrict and was subsequently issued a 90-day driving prohibition, police stated.

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RCMP stated any automobile on a roadway that’s powered by something aside from muscular energy suits into the definition of a motorized vehicle and requires a licensed driver and insurance coverage.

Police added that the motive force posed a danger to himself and different drivers, as motorists had been pressured to go round him.

He’s set to look in courtroom in December.

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