ManitobaA 35-year-old woman is charged with numerous offences after a pickup truck left a trail of damage in Dauphin, Man.At RCMP detachment, woman threatened officer and another prisoner, police sayDarren Bernhardt · CBC News · Posted: Dec 10, 2025 11:05 AM EST | Last Updated: 2 hours agoListen to this articleEstimated 3 minutesThe audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence.An impaired driver was arrested in Dauphin after a pickup truck hit a vehicle, ran over a stop sign then across lawns and over a power box, causing an internet outage. (Submitted by RCMP)A 35-year-old woman is charged with numerous offences after a pickup truck left a trail of damage in Dauphin, Man.”I haven’t seen a path of destruction, as it was called, like that for quite some time. This is not a normal occurrence, thankfully,” Dauphin RCMP Sgt. Andrew Seeley said.”It’s unfortunate that incidents like this occur, but that’s why we’re here. I’m proud of the officers and their dedicated team. They found this vehicle so fast and were able to resolve it before anybody was hurt.”Police were called Monday just after 8:30 p.m. by multiple people reporting an impaired driver pulling out of a liquor vendor parking lot on First Avenue N.E.The driver had left the vendor after being denied service and began to drive erratically down the road, RCMP said in a news release on Wednesday.The truck pulled into another business’s parking lot, where it hit a parked vehicle, causing that vehicle to collide with another parked car.The pickup truck came to a stop near the corner of Jackson Street and First Street S.E., after narrowly missing a telephone pole. (Submitted by RCMP)When the truck left the lot, it ran over a stop sign and then onto the lawn at another business, where it ran over a telecommunications box and caused an internet outage in the city, the news release said.”I’m not sure how wide that reached or how long that lasted, but it did knock out some internet for some users for some time,” Seeley said. The driver continued to another business, driving across the lawn, and narrowly missed a telephone pole before the truck was immobilized by a damaged wheel near the corner of Jackson Street and First Street S.E.The woman, the lone person in the truck, was was arrested at that spot. At the RCMP detachment, she provided breath samples that were over the legal limit for alcohol, the news release said.The issues didn’t stop there, however. While in custody, the driver resisted directions from police, threatened an officer and another prisoner and pulled a fire alarm, police said.The woman, from Ochre River, is charged with:Impaired driving.Failure to stop after an accident.Three counts of mischief under $5,000.Mischief over $5,000.False fire alarm.Two counts of uttering threats.Resisting a peace officer.Dangerous operation of a vehicle.ABOUT THE AUTHORDarren Bernhardt has been with CBC Manitoba since 2009 and specializes in offbeat and local history stories. He is the author of two bestselling books: The Lesser Known: A History of Oddities from the Heart of the Continent, and Prairie Oddities: Punkinhead, Peculiar Gravity and More Lesser Known Histories.
Driver on trail of destruction damages cars, runs over stop sign and takes out internet
