A 24-year-old man was arrested for public intoxication after he was found lying in the middle of the Trans-Canada Highway in Salmon Arm, claiming he had been hit by a vehicle.
On Dec. 26, a woman reported the man on the highway at 4th Avenue SW. Police said she also reported that he stumbled and fell multiple times as he attempted to walk toward her vehicle.
When officers and BC Ambulance arrived on scene, the man claimed he had be struck by a vehicle.
“BC Ambulance attended but the man refused their assistance and just kept repeating that he did not want to ‘go to the drunk tank,’” Cst. Andrew Hodges, spokesperson for the Salmon Arm RCMP said.
Police said the man was clearly intoxicated, with slurred speech and an inability to stand on his own.
“He was arrested for being intoxicated in public and then spent a night in ‘drunk tank,'” Hodges said.
The man was also issues a violation ticket for being intoxicated in a public place.
