• Julie Slack
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• Feb 06, 2010 - 11:03 AM
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Drunk driving blamed in crash

A Toronto man faces impaired driving charges after the car he was driving crashed into a cement lamppost and flipped over early this morning on Burnhamthorpe Rd. W.
The crash, near South Millway, caused significant damage to the vehicle, according to Peel Regional Police. Mississauga Fire and Emergency Services had to extricate the driver from his two-door Acura around 2:40 a.m. An air ambulance was called, but was not required. He was transported to a Mississauga hospital and later released to police.
The road remained closed for several hours as police investigated and crews worked to clean up the wreckage.
Ferdinand Selmanaj, 30, is charged with impaired driving and driving with more than 80 mg of alcohol in his blood. His licence was suspended for 90 days and his first court appearance is slated for Feb. 19.
jslack@mississauga.net

Loss of life through natural causes is bad enough as it is, but to lose ones life unnecessarily is nothing short of a tragedy. Sadly, alcohol plays a large part in the unnecessary loss of life, be it quickly or slowly. The drunk driving statistics don’t just refer to motorists getting stopped and caught out by the police for being over the limit. If that was the grimness of drinking and driving, then maybe it would all be just a fuss over nothing. But the fact of the matter is that Drinking and Driving Statistics include deaths and injuries in their figures. So bad is the problem, that almost everyone now knows someone, or knows of someone, who has either died or been fatally injured in a drink driving accident. Despite these grim facts, and despite the education we all have on the perils of alcohol, still millions of us worldwide heed the warnings of what has become the social lubricant of the twenty first century.