Police arrest four impaired drivers in less than 1 hour on Friday morning

Regional police had their hands full early Friday morning with a string of impaired driving incidents that resulted in arrests and a list of charges.

According to the Waterloo Regional Police Service, the first incident happened just before 2:15 a.m. in the area of Myers Road and Elgin Street South in Cambridge.

A Chevrolet truck drove through a fence and into a parked vehicle in the area. Police charged its driver, a 40-year-old Cambridge man, with a list of impaired-driving-related offences and assault of a peace officer.

Then, just 15 minutes later, an officer responded to calls of a Cadillac that had collided with light poles, a tree, and parked vehicles in the Laurentian West area of Kitchener. Nobody was injured, but a 29-year-old Kitchener man was charged with multiple impaired-driving-related charges.

Two more impaired drivers were arrested in Kitchener’s Grand River South area and near Bechtel Park in Waterloo over the same time period.

In all, 12 impaired driving charges were laid in a 45-minute stretch.