BC Highway Patrol is out with numbers from its winter impaired driving campaign.

Every day in December, BC Highway Patrol took an average of 8.61 impaired drivers off the road.

That’s an impaired driver caught every three hours for 31 days.

On Vancouver Island 53 prohibitions were handed out.

There were 267 issued throughout BC.

It should be noted that some regions, particularly Vancouver Island and the Lower Mainland, have large municipal and RCMP traffic enforcement units that are not part of BC Highway Patrol data. So, the numbers are likely higher.

The annual Winter Impaired Driving Campaign is a province-wide initiative in support of National Impaired Driving Prevention Month that features enhanced enforcement through check stops and patrols.

The Winter Impaired Driving Campaign is the second busiest time of year for impaired driving enforcement. The busiest time of year is the Summer Campaign which runs from June to August.

To learn more, visit Royal Canadian Mounted Police.