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PAGE 2, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1979, WHITBY FREE PRESS Emergency eries arr ived modtme C ONT'D FROM PAGE i' Initial caîl for service was receîved, Young said. .However, Boyce said that a witness told her the acci- dent occured at 11:40 p.m. and the policé arrived at 12:04 a.m., 24 minutes after the accident, occured. 1The question Is now, how long was it before a cail for service was placed? Neither, Boyce nor Young have the answer to this' question. If this time was know, the time the accident occured would flot be in doubt. Since police received the cali for service at 12:02 a.m. , the response ti me was accep- O'NEIL peje GENERAL HOME MAINTENANCE & GRDNSERVICE' *Complote Lndscaping & Patios * Snow *Spring Cloan Ups * Rotor Complote Summor Cure * Ail Ti *Homo Winterizing 868-0385- Plowing rTilling aodes Covered table, Young said. Boyce asked why there was a 17 Division car at the scene and not one- of Whitby's 18 division. Young said that 18 Division cars.were involved with ano- ther'fatality accident'on the lth Conc. north east of Osha- wa in which two young men died in a overturned van. The four'cars (each with two men) and the sergeant in charge were searching the area around, the a ccident for any additional victims, Young said. There is another discre- pancy. Young said that the officer responding to the cal folwda Whiitby Fire Department truck to the scene because he did, not know the location of Michael Blvd. However, ambulance cre w mnember. Bill' Cocker said that he' followed the' fire. truck in andthat the policé were already on the scene. "I'm sure he was there ,before we were," Cocker egid.* "The police were there .When we arrived."' -Boyce also sa id that wit- nesses had told her the same thing. SYoung said that the police officer probably overtook the fire truck. once directions had been given and probably arrived just momn'ents before the ambulanàce and fire tr .uck did.' Whitby Fireý Department officials said that only one fire truck, was sent to the scene. Cocker said that upon his arrival Milledge was in criti- cal condition and was taken to the Oshawa General Hos- pital as soon as a relief ambulance arrived fromn Ajax. The Ajax ambulance was standing by at the Ajaýx- Whitby townline when the caîl came in, Cocker said. Cocker said that bis cal came in at 12:02 a.m. and was at- the scene at six minutes later. At 12 :14 a.m., the stand-by ambulance from Ajax arni- ved. Carrying Mill edge, Cocker left the scene at 12:18 a.m. arriving Oshawa General at 12:25. His stand-by arrived with the others eight minutes later. The. second ambulance involved did return to the scene at 1:30 a.m, to pick up equipment the crew had left behind. John Kunetsky, the admi- nistrator, of the Dr. J.O. Ruddy Hospital has taken exception to Boyce's dlaim that -the hospital* was closed at night. Kunetsky said that the hospital is not closed but that it does flot have the facilities to give adequate care for major trauma cases. He said that most of these - -'cases are handled through Oshawa General because they have the staff to deal wi th the problem. Still, cases fromn there are still transfer- red to Sunnybrook or Scar- borough General hospitals in Toronto from Oshawa, for long term care after they, have been stabilized. If the case does notinvolve such major trauma as head injuries and severe chest wounds Ruddy can handle it, Kunetsky said. Charles Dale, the driver of the car. in which «Milledge suffered his fatal injuries is charged with care and con- trol of a motor vehicle while impàired, care and control >while having .08 nijîligraîns of alcohol in the blood and dangerous driving, 'Young said. Den*vers should lie on the ALERT Getting charged wità *drinking and driving may become easier for those who nsist on.doing it thanks to %A 1,ERT. AI4ERT, whose proper name is alcohol level evalua- tion'roadside tester is now being used, by Durham Region's two Ontario Provin cial Police detachments'. ALERT's purpos >eisto 0deter- mriine whether a dri«ver is a c.andidate for a'-breathalyser 1070 - - - -W test. " The OPP detachments patrol Hlighway 401, provîn- rial highways (such as Hwy. Èii and in the case of Beaverton's detachment, regional roads as well. ALERT was brought in by Ontario Solicitor-General Roy MeMurtry, as li-, ,' t'~i "alleviate 'stiiîie of the diffi- culties police face in appre- hending imJpaired drivers and to help reduce the nuni- b' 'of road accidents." 'iIl e new system will elimi- nate a pplice officer's need to have -of'r"'r "reasonable and probable grounds" of impairment.before stopping a vehicle and bringing the driver to the station, for a breathalyser test. t McMurty said the device was not to replace the breathalyser but to give a "scientific indication of whether a drinking driver should be prevented froni driving, at that moment, for the -9afety of other people." ALERT is. a rectangular orange box, twice the size of a man's hand with a disposa- ble mouthpiece. ' Specific blood-alcohol levels are flot indicated on ALERT. Instead, the device has three lights: green, this shows a blood-alcohol level of less than 50 niilligrams; yellow, between 50 and 100 ,milligrams; and red, more than 100 milligrams. Any driver whose reading on ALERT shows a red light will immediately be taken to the nearest OPP station for the severer breathalyser test. The police officer will be able to use his discretion if the light shows yellow. The officer will observe the driver's behaviour to decide if, the breathalyser is needed; if the driver appears to be drunk, he will be taken in. Assistant Crown Attorney Anthony Vale said the ALERT-system may pro ve.a tume saving to those drivers who have not had enough to make theni officially impai- red. "It could save a lot of time by eliminating a lot of the people who are taken to the station," Val e said.. "If it's yellow and they think that he wasn't impai- red, they would probably let him go," he said. The test has been a legal possibility since 1974 when the Cniminal Code of Canada made provision for it and made refusing to take a breathalyser test a criminal offen 'ce, Vale said. The penalty for refusaI is identical forimpaîred driv- ing, a fine and a three-month licence suspension. Whitby's OPP detachment could be making spot checks with ALERT, although none are planned. However, there is an offi- cer on patrol with it, 50 drivers who drink, then drive, should take note. 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