{"id":15412,"date":"2025-12-06T18:08:42","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T21:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/2025\/12\/06\/drinking-and-driving-exacting-heavy-price-on-rankin-inlet\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T18:08:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T21:08:42","slug":"drinking-and-driving-exacting-heavy-price-on-rankin-inlet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/2025\/12\/06\/drinking-and-driving-exacting-heavy-price-on-rankin-inlet\/","title":{"rendered":"Drinking and driving exacting heavy price on Rankin Inlet"},"content":{"rendered":"<article id=\"post-67131\">\n<div>\n<header>      <\/header>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"860\" height=\"577\" src=\"https:\/\/thegitchemanitou.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/67131-drinking-and-driving-exacting-heavy-price-on-rankin-inlet-860x577.jpg\" alt=\"drinking-and-driving-exacting-heavy-price-on-rankin-inlet\" decoding=\"async\"><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span>Drinking and driving exacting heavy price on Rankin Inlet<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>                                                                                                                            Published 7:29 am Saturday, December 6, 2025                                                                        The toll being taken on the community of Rankin Inlet by drinking and driving continues to mount, including a recent fatal incident. A man lost his life a few weeks ago after crashing into a hydrant bollard in front of the Tapariit Building, according to local Fire Chief Mark Wyatt. \u201cWe arrived on scene and I watched the life come out of him as I\u2019m doing CPR on him on the way to the health centre. \u201cAlcohol and ATVs are just a bad, bad idea!\u201d Wyatt emphasized. Another serious accident happened at Johnston Cove, at the end of the point, in November. Wyatt said a man on a snowmobile was whipping back and forth over the thin ice. \u201cThe ocean is barely frozen, so getting out to him was a little tricky because you don\u2019t know how stable the ice really is,\u201d said Wyatt. \u201cHe rolled his machine and, according to the doctor, he was only minutes away from death by the time we got him to the hospital. He had some serious injuries. It just wasn\u2019t pretty.\u201d Wyatt said he wishes people would stop drinking and driving. He said it\u2019s the dumbest thing in the world and Rankin Inlet has experienced more alcohol-related accidents this year than the past few years. \u201cThere was no question about it that this latest serious accident was caused by drinking and drinking. I don\u2019t know who in their right mind figures that it\u2019s going to be a great idea to drink lots of booze and then go drive a quad up the road,\u201d said Wyatt. \u201cWe had a pickup truck a few weeks ago come off the first bridge at Kilometre 6 coming back towards town. The truck missed the bridge completely, flipped over, flew off the side of the bridge and landed in the river. \u201cFortunately, that river was frozen solid because if they had crashed through the ice, we probably would have had at least two fatalities, maybe three. \u201cI can\u2019t comprehend it. I just don\u2019t understand why that is such a popular thing to do \u2014 let\u2019s just get drunk and drive. Of the ATV accidents we had here this year, I\u2019d say 13 out of 15 involved alcohol.\u201d             <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drinking and driving exacting heavy price on Rankin Inlet Published 7:29 am Saturday, December 6, 2025 The toll being taken on the community of Rankin Inlet by drinking and driving continues to mount, including a recent fatal incident. A man lost his life a few weeks ago after crashing into a hydrant bollard in front [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15413,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118,4954,1],"tags":[116,4953],"class_list":["post-15412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-indigenous","category-nunavut","category-uncategorized","tag-indigenous","tag-nunavut"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}