Drunk Driver Crashes Into Ditch

Monday, 19 March 2012 07:35

A local man's St Patty's Day celebrations ended abruptly. Saturday afternoon around 4:40 pm, Woodstock Police received calls of vehicle travelling into Woodstock on Highway 2 that was weaving in and out of traffic at a high rate of speed. The car left the road and drove through a field before police eventually found the vehicle upside down in a ditch on the 11th Line near Oxford Road 33. The driver, 22 year-old Gregory Steinback was arrested for impaired driving. He will be back in court on April 3rd to answer to his charges.

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