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Police in the GTA were kept busy over the Labour Day weekend rounding up impaired drivers.

In all, 88 people were charged in the GTA with impaired offences over the long weekend.

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Toronto Police say they arrested 20 drivers for impaired driving offences and in one case, the driver was seen falling out of a slow moving vehicle.

“(Impaired driving) is a stubborn challenge and people aren’t getting the message,” said Sgt. Brett Moore.

He added sensational cases where people crash driving four times over the legal limit aren’t the ones that keep him up at night.

“It’s the low level impairments where people regularly have three drinks and get behind the whell. Those are the ones I fear. We know that everyone we catch there are many more that we don’t,” Moore said.

Peel Regional Police charged 18 people for driving under the influence of alcohol, one for drugged driving and issued nine suspensions.

Durham Regional Police charged 13 people and York police also charged 13 people.

York Const. Andy Pattenden said in an average week there will be 20 to 30 impaired charges.

“To have 13 in three days, that’s just bad. Any more than one is terrible,” Pattenden said.

The OPP charged 24 people in the GTA with impaired offences.