Charges have been laid after the driver of a street sweeper was caught drinking what appeared to be alcohol on the QEW last week.
OPP Sgt. Kerry Schmidt said the incident occurred one afternoon last week on the QEW in Mississauga.
According to police, the street sweeper was spotted travelling “extremely slowly” down the highway and one witness reported seeing the driver drinking what appeared to be alcohol inside the commercial vehicle.
Police tracked down the vehicle and the driver was arrested by officers.
Schmidt says “he is now facing charges of driving impaired, driving over the legal limit, and having open alcohol in his vehicle that he was driving."