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Alexas Bus

Roadblocks catch several impaired drivers last weekend in Kamloops

KAMLOOPS - Alexa’s Bus was in Kamloops for a second round and this time roadblocks with the mobile safety unit yielded 13 arrests. Police stationed the bus, named for Alexa Middlelaer, a four-year-old killed by a drunk driver, at various locations throughout the city this past weekend, May 1 to 2, to check for impaired...

Bus helps officers bust Kamloops drivers

KAMLOOPS - RCMP used the latest police agency tool to target drunk drivers to hand out sanctions to 11 different drivers for impaired driving in Kamloops over Easter weekend. Cpl. Cheryl Bush says along with those 11 drivers, officers also caught two drivers without insurance, one prohibited driver and made four marijuana seizures. They used...

Alexa’s Bus helping to crack down on drunk drivers in Kamloops

KAMLOOPS – There is a special addition to the Kamloops RCMP traffic section on the road in the South Thompson this long weekend. The Mobile Road Safety Unit, or Alexa’s Bus as it’s called, will be helping the police catch impaired drivers. Alexa Middelaer, 4, was feeding a horse at the side of the road...