Driver charged with impaired on Highway 7 in Carleton Pace after complaint

A Mississippi Mills resident is facing impaired driving charges after Ontario Provincial Police stopped a vehicle in Carleton Place on Saturday.

Lanark County OPP say they received a complaint about a possible impaired driver shortly before 5 p.m. on Aug. 2. Officers located the vehicle on Highway 7 and conducted a traffic stop.

The driver was arrested and brought to the Carleton Place detachment for testing.

Tarmara Chambers, 58, has been charged with:

• Operation while impaired – alcohol
• Operation while impaired – blood alcohol concentration over 80
• Driving a motor vehicle with an open container of alcohol

Chambers was released and is scheduled to appear in the Ontario Court of Justice in Perth on Sept. 8.

Her driver’s licence has been suspended for 90 days and the vehicle impounded for seven.