The Penalties For An Impaired Driving Charge Or Conviction

If a person is charged with impaired operation of a motor vehicle, or with impaired care and control, Alberta traffic law automatically suspends the operator’s license for 90 days. However, there is a grace period. The police take away your driver’s license, the plastic card, and they cut it up right there at the roadside. [...]

How Various Impaired Driving Charges Are Defined In Alberta

In Alberta, impaired driving is defined just as it is everywhere else in the country, because criminal law is standard across Canada. There are basically 4 categories of alcohol-related driving offenses under the Criminal Code. There is operating the motor vehicle while your ability to do so is impaired by alcohol. Then there is operating [...]

The Consequences Of An Impaired Driving Conviction And How Legal Advice Can Help

There are many consequences of an impaired driving offense and several ways in which we assist people who have been charged. One thing to keep in mind is that the instruments that the police use to test blood alcohol level, like any other machine, are subject to failure periodically. So simply because the machine gave [...]

Impaired Driving In The Context Of Car Accidents

An impaired driving case is particularly difficult when someone calls a lawyer and says: I have just been in a car accident and someone is hurt or someone is killed and I am being investigated by the police for impaired driving. It’s difficult because if there has been a collision and there are injuries or [...]

How The Police Determine That A Person Has Been Driving While Impaired

When the police are looking out for impaired drivers (and they are always on the look out for impaired drivers), they watch for vehicles displaying a driving pattern that is out of the ordinary. They look for a driver who is weaving between the lines, changing lanes without signals, turning without proper signals or just [...]

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