{"id":6254,"date":"2024-02-03T07:58:50","date_gmt":"2024-02-03T10:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/?p=6254"},"modified":"2024-02-03T08:00:53","modified_gmt":"2024-02-03T11:00:53","slug":"transit-bus-driver-charged-with-being-impaired-after-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/2024\/02\/03\/transit-bus-driver-charged-with-being-impaired-after-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Transit Bus Driver Charged With Being Impaired After Crash."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Halifax Regional Police has charged the driver of a Halifax Transit bus in relation to a motor vehicle crash last night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At approximately 11:30 p.m. officers responded to a single vehicle crash at Long Lake Drive in Halifax. A Halifax Transit bus operator had driven a bus into a ditch while trying to turn the bus. There were no passengers on the bus at the time. Officers detected signs of impairment from the driver and demanded a roadside screen test, which the driver failed. The driver was arrested, and officers seized alcohol containers before taking the driver for an evidentiary breath test.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The driver, a 64-year-old man, is scheduled to appear in Halifax provincial court at a later date to face charges of operating a conveyance while impaired and operating a conveyance with over 80 mg% of alcohol in the blood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: Release <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Halifax Regional Police has charged the driver of a Halifax Transit bus in relation to a motor vehicle crash last<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10,12,13,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-general","category-latest","category-news","category-top-stories"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6255,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6254\/revisions\/6255"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}