Impaired driving arrest follows gas pump near miss

A 28-year-old man faces an impaired driving charge following an incident where a vehicle ran into a gas pump island Monday evening, say Charlottetown police.

Police say his vehicle struck a gas pump island in front of the Riverside Irving at 8:10 p.m.

The vehicle got a flat tire in the collision.

Police arrested the man on the scene. They allege he had more than three times the legal amount of alcohol in his blood.

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