Whitehorse school locked down due to suspected impaired driver

A Whitehorse primary school was put on lockdown for about 30 minutes Wednesday morning as police tracked a suspected impaired driver in the area.

RCMP say they got a call at around 8:15 a.m. reporting a vehicle driving erratically down Two Mile Hill. The driver failed to stop for police when the vehicle was located in Riverdale.

Police decided it was unsafe to pursue the vehicle in the residential neighbourhood.

They tracked the vehicle and found it parked in the driveway of a house on Hart Crescent, near Grey Mountain Primary School.

"Police requested the school activate lockdown procedures to avoid exposing students to a potentially dangerous driver," says a RCMP news release.

The Department of Education says the school was locked down for about half an hour.

A 20-year-old man was arrested and chargedwith impaired driving, flight from police, dangerous operation of a motor vehicle and driving while prohibited. The vehicle was impounded.