COVID leads to more daytime impaired driving
Vernon North Okanagan RCMP Supt. Shawna Baher has been making the rounds of local municipal partners this week detailing what the crime situation looked like in 2020.
On Monday, she told Vernon council, that most parts of the province have see an uptick in impaired driving which is consistent with increased alcohol and drug consumption due to COVID-19.
It’s widely acknowledged that COVID isolation combined with rule changes for bars and restaurants has changed habits. Under public health orders B.C. bars, pubs and restaurants have to stop liquor sales at 10 p.m.
“We certainly aren’t seeing the late night impaired driving that we did pre-COVID,” Baher told the Electoral Area Advisory Committee (EAAC) Thursday (Feb. 11).