TWO IMPAIRED DRIVING CHARGES SUNDAY AFTERNOON, EVENING

BRACEBRIDGE — Police charged two people with impaired driving Sunday within two hours across Muskoka.

On January 10 at 5:30 p.m. officers responded to a call from the public about a suspected impaired driver on Twelve Mile Bay Road in Georgian Bay Twp.

Officers located the vehicle and charged 21-year-old Austin Galbraith-Cox, of Moose Deer Point First Nation, with Operation While Impaired CC 320.14(1)(a) and Over 80 CC 320.14(1)(b).

He will appear in the Ontario Court of Justice in Bracebridge February 16, 2021,

Galbraith-Cox’s driver’s licence has been suspended and the vehicle impounded.

Later, at 7 p.m., police responded to reports of a collision involving two vehicles in the parking lot of a business on Muskoka Road 118 in Bracebridge.

Officers determined alcohol to be a factor and after conducting an investigation into the collision charged 30-year-old Graham Polmateer, of Bracebridge, with Operation While Impaired – Over 80 CC 320.14(1)(b).

Polmateer is to appear in the Ontario Court of Justice in Bracebridge February 9, 2021. His driver’s licence has been suspended and the vehicle impounded.