The long weekend saw many Vancouverites on the road, travelling for a multi-day vacation or a day trip.
Two drivers crashed into trees on Labour Day, both facing charges for impaired driving.
The first happened early morning on Sept. 5 as the driver was going on the ramp off 1st Avenue onto Highway 1.
"This driver lost control and collided with a tree," said Vancouver Police Department (VPD) Traffic Section in a tweet. "Their passenger went to the hospital with minor injuries. The driver blew well over the legal limit and has been charged with impaired driving."
A second driver took out a tree later that morning.
"The driver was suspected of being impaired by drugs and is facing criminal charges for Refusal. Luckily, there were no passengers and no one else was injured," said VPD Traffic Section in another tweet.
According to ICBC, 65 people die each year in impaired driving-related crashes on average and nearly 23 per cent of crash fatalities are related to impaired driving.
Mothers Against Drunk Driving Canada's report published last year on federal charges and short-term provincial licence suspensions for impaired driving from 2010 to 2019 shows that impaired driving charges and suspensions have begun to increase after 2017.
In B.C., a total of 38,042 charges and suspensions per year marked 2011 as the highest annual rate, the lowest being 2017's total of 23,878. In 2019, the total had climbed up to 25,632.
