Police in Brant County were left scratching their heads after a Hamilton man passed a fully marked OPP SUV with the lights on in the blinding snow Thursday morning.

Brant County Ontario Provincial Police media officer Const. Larry Plummer was one of the officers in the detachment when the report came in over the radio at about 7:20 a.m.

According to Plummer an officer in a fully marked SUV cruiser was responding to a collision on the 403 in heavy snow, travelling eastbound in the passing lane when a grey Honda Civic passed it on the right.

"We were listening to it in the office and we couldn't believe what we were hearing," Plummer said Friday. "We didn't get Toronto snow yesterday but it was pretty bad. The roads were not good."

He said about six centimetres fell between 5:30 a.m. and 11 a.m., most of it before 9 a.m.

By this point another officer had responded to the collision in the westbound lanes and reported all was fine, so the officer in the SUV pulled in behind the Civic, which Plummer said didn't stop immediately.

Patrick Solonenko, 27, of Hamilton was charged with careless driving and fail to stop on right for emergency vehicle. The offences carry a total of nine demerit points and fines of $400 each upon conviction.

The charges haven't been proven in court.