A grandfather is vowing to steer clear of alcohol after driving with more than four times the legal amount of alcohol in his blood when he hit a parked vehicle last fall and drove away.

Sault Ste. Marie Police Service responded to a possible impaired driver at an east-end parking lot on Oct. 29. A Dodge Ram truck hit a parked car on Trunk Road, assistant Crown attorney Blair Hagan told court on Thursday. The truck left the parking lot.

Police saw the driver stumble out of his vehicle at a home. Alcohol could be smelled on his breath, Ontario Court Justice Danalyn MacKinnon heard. He did poorly on a sobriety test. The man was taken back to the police station where he gave breath samples of 364 milligrams and 360 milligrams of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood. He did not have any insura

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