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RCMP Issue Over 800 Tickets and 83 Drug-Impaired Charges After Shambhala Festival

Forming part of the RCMP’s summer impaired driving campaign, the operation saw dozens of vehicles towed along with licence suspensions for drug impairment.

A police checkpoint set up during the Shambhala music festival near Salmo, B.C., in July.
File photo from 2020 of Shambhala Music Festival.

Overview

  • Joint RCMP, B.C. Highway Patrol and Nelson Police operations on August 5 yielded more than 800 traffic citations and vehicle defect orders following the Shambhala Music Festival.
  • The post‐festival checks resulted in 360 speeding tickets, nine excessive speeding citations and 11 notices for unsafe or mechanically unsound vehicles.
  • Authorities charged 83 drivers with drug-impaired offences and imposed 59 one-day licence suspensions after roadside tests detected suspected impairment.
  • Sixty vehicles were towed for mechanical safety violations or suspected driver impairment during the enforcement operation.
  • The targeted effort is part of the RCMP’s summer impaired driving campaign running from June 15 through the end of August to curb festival-related road safety risks.