The RCMP check stop program ran through a third week last week.  They report over 25 hundred vehicles were checked across Manitoba during 91 check stops.  32 people were charged with either impaired driving or driving over .08 with the average blood alcohol reading of .154 roughly twice the legal limit and the highest .250 over three times the legal limit which was the reading for three impaired drivers.

An additional three people were charged with refusal, 10 people were charged for not wearing their seatbelts, 305 charges were laid under the highway traffic act, there were six other criminal code driving offences, 25 written warnings and several small seizures under the controlled drugs and substances act.