RCMP are encouraging the public to call 911 if they see a suspected impaired driver on the road after such a call resulted in an arrest and charges this weekend.

Lower Sackville mounties have charged a 46-year-old Beechville-area woman with drunk driving and refusing a breathalyzer test after attending a single-vehicle crash on Highway 101, near exit 2A around 8:30 p.m. Sunday night.

“In this particular instance, we received a call from another driver who thought they might have been witnessing an impaired driver on the road,” Cst. Tammy Lobb told News 95.7. “Police across HRM are encouraging citizens to call 911 to alert us of any impaired drivers that they see out there.”

The vehicle was jammed up against a guard rail when police arrived.

RCMP will not confirm that 21 empty liquor bottles were seized from the trunk of the woman’s 2003 Volkswagen Passat.

“As with any investigation we try to gather as much information at the scene of a crime as possible,” said Lobb. ‘We go ahead and seize whatever evidence is available to us. There was evidence that was seized at that crash.”

RCMP in partnership with Halifax Regional Police are also holding impaired driving checkpoints throughout HRM, through the holidays.