BC Highway Patrol leading charge to ‘Light Up the Province’ as part of annual campaign to keep roads safe from Impaired Drivers

BC Highway Patrol is ready to launch this year’s Light Up the Province campaign with extra police officers primed and ready, and working alongside police agencies around BC, to get impaired drivers off the roads and help you get home safely.

During the launch event on Dec. 7, on Grandview Highway near Boundary Road on the edge of Burnaby and Vancouver, BC Highway Patrol was set up with their policing partners. It’s part of the Winter Impaired Driving Campaign for the month of December, and the launch event is just one of the concurrent roadblocks happening from Hope to Pemberton and throughout northern BC, the Kootenays, the Okanagan and Vancouver Island.

“We know we’ll get lots of positive support from people who stay sober and responsible on the roads,” says Superintendent Mike Coyle with BC Highway Patrol. “The statistics are clear: People who choose to drive while impaired by drugs or alcohol are the leading cause of criminal death and injury in Canada, and we will work to get those people off the road.“