Despite education campaigns and pleas to stop, high-risk behaviour continues on our streets and highways every single day

My heart sinks lower with every news release that arrives in my inbox from the RCMP.

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The police have their hands full, and the computer notifications come in a steady stream: ping, ping, ping.

People who have gone missing.

Break-ins at cabins and homes.

Hunters overdue.

Speeders caught at traffic checkpoints.

But most disheartening of all is the steady flow of news about suspected impaired drivers.

From Lumsden to Lamaline and Placentia to Port au Choix, from Carbonear to Come By Chance and Brigus to Bonavista, drivers from every demographic are getting behind the wheel impaired by drugs and/or drink and taking devastating risks.

People are driving under the influence in this province, region and country at all hours of the day and night — crashing into pedestrians, parked and moving cars, moose, ponds, ditches, houses and light poles; they’re getting drunk or stoned in their vehicles and passing out........

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