You're camping and you drive somewhere to drop a deuce. What the fuck. More to this story than you're telling us.

OP doesn't sound terribly experienced in the usage of the outdoors, considering they're explaining to us how a forestry road is "basically gravel"

No offense but I have a hard time believing your friend has told you the completely accurate and unbiased version of that story.

IIRC they have ways of calculating the rate at which you're processing alcohol and from there can work out your BAC at the time of the incident.

Agreed. If groups like NSSAR or any other SAR found that what Phil wrote is true they would castrate all involved. The police and tow truck driver would definitely know that.

Only way I can imagine them leaving her, is if she refused to get in the vehicle, or was belligerent and abusive.

As I stated before, these are the same first responders who often get called out when people get lost in the bush and they search day and night to rescue them. They don't just abandon you in the middle of the bush.

you dont get a free ride home when your vehicle is seized. an fsr is no different in the eyes of some.

I feel for this guy here a little cus I go for a drive in the morning for my deuce. I never deuce near camp. My friends and myslef all have dogs last thig you want is one of them dogs digging up said deuce lol. Im sure Id reak of booze too and so would my truck after sweating it out all night hahaha

I got one when my car was seized, but it wasn't a DUI.

I didn't get a ride home, but the tow truck driver atleast took me back to his yard in town, where I was able to get a family member to come give me a lift. This wasn't a DUI neither, it was an excessive speeding infraction.

I had to walk and it was just a 24 hour suspension. Tow truck wouldnt let me in and I didnt have a cell at the time, cop wouldnt call me a cab either.

wow that's shitty.

The cop is supposed to call a cab for you (if you weren't/aren't able to get a lift from someone you know).....

Pretty weird, admittedly the officer that pulled me over was insanely nice and gave me warnings on a couple things, but she was going to give me a ride home until someone with this volunteer police assistance group (?) came by and picked me up. I'd never heard of it before but I guess it's just civilians that volunteer to help the RCMP out with stuff like that or something.

Hey guys,

So just to close this off, I got a lawyer and did a oral hearing with icbc. The hearing was last Friday, and just found out today that EVERYTHING was overturned! I get my license back and can get my car out of impound as of today.

congrats. Did they say why it was overturned?

The email that i received from my lawyer says i was not the driver under the act of 215.41(1) which got everything overturned.

Wait wut? Not the driver??

215.41 (1) In this section, “driver”
includes a person having the care or control of a motor vehicle on a highway or industrial road whether or not the motor vehicle is in motion.

Were you driving or not? Or was the fact it was on a back road the provision?


Berz out.

It is fun to drop duce in front of your tent tho :whistle:

I'm assuming he got to drive drunk and not get charged because the place where he was driving was not a "highway or industrial road"..

"highway" includes

(a) every highway within the meaning of the Transportation Act,
(b) every road, street, lane or right of way designed or intended for or used by the general public for the passage of vehicles, and
(c) every private place or passageway to which the public, for the purpose of the parking or servicing of vehicles, has access or is invited,
but does not include an industrial road;



"highway" means a public street, road, trail, lane, bridge, trestle, tunnel, ferry landing, ferry approach, any other public way or any other land or improvement that becomes or has become a highway by any of the following:

(a) deposit of a subdivision, reference or explanatory plan in a land title office under section 107 of the Land Title Act;
(b) a public expenditure to which section 42 applies;
(c) a common law dedication made by the government or any other person;
(d) declaration, by notice in the Gazette, made before December 24, 1987;
(e) in the case of a road, colouring, outlining or designating the road on a record in such a way that section 13 or 57 of the Land Act applies to that road;
(f) an order under section 56 (2) of this Act;
(g) any other prescribed means;

"I'm assuming he got to drive drunk"
Is it just me or does this read just a touch bitter and presumptuous ?

Quote..."Had a awesome night, drank alot. Went to sleep only to wake up.."

And the fact that the Cop who stopped him also believed he was impaired...the human body takes a lot of time to process the alcohol when someone "drinks a lot" and a couple of hours does not accomplish that. I have stopped impaired drivesr middle of the afternoon of the day after the party and they were stilll over the legal limit because they "drank a lot".

Bitter...no.....presumptuous....yes. I preseume based on what he told us and what the Cop did...he was still impaired.

He was impaired and he knows it. Good job on the lawyers part. Hope this learned OP a lesson.

Berz out.

This.

As long as OP learns a lesson in all of this, that's what matters.

These suspensions and penalties exist in order to curb the behaviour (whether that be speeding, DUI, running a stop sign, etc.), as long as the person learns their lesson it's whatever.

So in the eyes of the law, OP is not guilty. But he still had a vehicle towed, impounded. Charges might have been dropped, but there's no dropping the impound time already served.

That's the problem with these IRPs.

Some would say that it got a drunk out of a car and off the road....before anyone or anything got hurt?

No, it sounds like the OP's veh and another were hurt. ICBC is likely to deem the OP at fault based on having alcohol on board at the time.

You are correct...I did not read back to first post......no body got injured and ICBC will find whoever at fault. Alcohol involved so they usually assign
fault to that driver and no coverage for the DWI.

In other words, OP beat the DWI rap, but is still fucked.

Sorry, sebberry.