30 27TH ANNUAL CRIME PREVENTION GUIDE Penalities and Consequences If you drive impaired, there are several legal consequences: • You can receive a 24-hour roadside suspension of your driver's license. • You can be charged with a crime under the federal Criminal Code and sentenced in criminal court to a fine and/or time in jail. • You can lose your driver's license under the provincial Highway Traffic Act and be prohibited by the criminal court from operating a motor vehicle on any street, road, highway or any other public place in Canada. • You can be required to take treatment programs for problems with alcohol. • Your vehicle can be impounded and you will be responsible for towing and storage charges. • Your car insurance rates will increase. • If people are injured or killed, or their property damaged, you can be sued or sent to jail. There are penalties and consequences both under the PEI Highway Traffic Act and the Criminal Code of Canada. The Highway Traffic Act allows for the following: • An immediate 24-hour roadside suspension of your license • An administrative driving prohibition of 90 days effective 7 days after your 24 hour roadside suspension. • Impoundment of your vehicle for 30 days if you are driving while suspended and have been convicted of driving while suspended or prohibited under the Criminal Code of Canada in the past two years. • Impoundment of your vehicle for 60 days for a second offense of driving while suspended or prohibited under the Criminal Code of Canada within two years and have been convicted of driving while suspended in the past two years. Impoundment of your vehicle for 6 months when charged with: • any offence under the Criminal Code of Canada involving a motor vehicle where there is death or serious injury, or • an offence under the Criminal Code of Canada for impaired driving and there has been a previous conviction in the past 10 years for death or serious injury, • or an offence under the Criminal Code of Canada for impaired or prohibited driving and there have been 2 or more similar convictions under the Criminal Code of Canada in the past 10 years. IMPAIREDDRIVING CONTINUED
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