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Police: Impaired golf cart driver collides with parked car, altercation ensues

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A stock photo of several golf carts.

New details have emerged about what happened when an allegedly impaired man got behind the wheel of a golf cart on Sunday.

Provincial police in Kawartha Lakes say they responded to the area of Victoria Road in Kawartha Lakes’ Laxton Digby Longford Township area around 1 a.m.

OPP say they had been called to the trailer park area for a collision involving a golf cart.

Police say the driver of the golf cart collided with a parked vehicle and then had a verbal altercation with the owner of the vehicle.

The supervisor of the trailer park then called OPP to notify them of the incident.

No injuries were reported as a result of the collision.

Police say an investigation resulted in the arrest of a 34-year-old Clarington, Ont. man.

He now faces impaired driving charges, including a charge of having a blood alcohol concentration higher than the legal limit of 80 milligrams of alcohol per 100 millilitres of blood.

The man also had his licence suspended for 90 days as a result of the incident.