Fresh snow makes for poor hit-and-run driving conditions, as one city driver learned Friday.
Officers with the Thunder Bay Police Service were investigating a collision at County Fair Plaza just before 5 a.m. Friday. Police at the scene discovered that a vehicle had skidded off the road and drove over a fence at the mall.
The driver had fled the scene.
But freshly fallen snow allowed investigating officers to follow the driver’s tracks. Those tracks led police to a County Boulevard home.
In the driveway of that home was a running Chevrolet Impala with a man behind the vehicle’s wheel.
The 22-year-old suspected driver was ordered out of the vehicle and was then arrested for impaired driving.
Police say the man was two-and-a-half times above the legal limit.
The man was released from custody and will appear in court at a later date.
