NEWS RELEASE
SOUTH SIMCOE POLICE SERVICE
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On Saturday, March 6, 2021, at approximately 8:30 p.m., police were called to a two-vehicle collision involving a station wagon and a pickup truck in the Saint Johns Road and 7th Line area of Innisfil.
No one was injured.
The driver of the pickup truck was arrested for operation while impaired by drug and moments later went into medical distress.
Police realized the man was suffering an overdose.
An officer quickly administered naloxone and paramedics transported the man to hospital where he was listed in stable condition.
A charge of impaired driving by drug, a 90-day licence suspension and a seven-day vehicle impoundment are pending against a 33-year-old Innisfil man.
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