A Halifax-area woman has been arrested for impaired driving at a McDonald’s drive-thru just hours after ringing in the new year with a blood alcohol level more than four times the legal limit, according to RCMP.
Police said officers were called to the fast food restaurant on Sackville Drive in Lower Sackville, N.S., just before 3:30 a.m.
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“The caller reported that the driver of a Hyundai Sonata had crashed into the building and was now falling asleep at the wheel,” RCMP wrote in a news release Thursday.
According to the RCMP, an officer was already in line in front of the vehicle. That officer, along with others who responded to the call, “determined that the driver was impaired by alcohol.”
A 28-year-old woman was arrested for impaired driving and was subsequently released into the care of a family member. She is due in court in March.