§ _ s h) Police see CANADA‘S BESTâ€"SELLING * a * AUTOMOTIVE BRAND : Increase In E 1el . i t F ARS | N A RO W t number of s Sn ib J m impaired E; > pa ocA - drivers in December Your Milton @@zZ» Team! By Tim Whitnell METROLAND wsst MEDIA GROUP There was relatively good news and some bad news among the recent statistics released by Halton Regional Police concerning people who drink and drive. Halton police have released imâ€" paired driving statistics for 2016, including from its annual Reduce Impaired Driving Everywhere (RIDE) December campaign and yearâ€"overâ€" year totals. Results from RIDE, a program held December 1â€"31, in partnership with community agencies such as MADD Canada and funded in part by the Ontario Ministry of Community Safeâ€" ty, are as follows: » 266 roadside breath tests conducted + 51 impaired driving arrests (comâ€" pared to 31 during the same period in 2015) + 47 threeâ€"day driver‘s licence susâ€" pensions 2 sevenâ€"day licence suspensions *« 5 24â€"hour suspensions (G1/G2 drivers) While impaired charges were up for December 2016 over the same J period in 2015, impaired driving arâ€" rests in Halton for the entire year | decreased from 425 in 2015 to 404 in 2016. In related good news, the New Year‘s Eve RIDE program in Burlington reâ€" sulted in 13 charges for various G® 655 MAIN STREET EAST, MILTON N. MiLT oN «7 196 905â€"875â€"FORD(3673) . | to find B . your perfect home with a local realtor.