{"id":69961,"date":"2025-07-17T13:14:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T13:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/69961\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T13:14:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T13:14:10","slug":"dangerous-driver-sentenced-quinte-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/69961\/","title":{"rendered":"Dangerous driver sentenced | Quinte News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Justice-Gavel-Scales-480x360.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Dangerous driver sentenced\"\/>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>A serial dangerous driver won\u2019t be doing more jail time, however, he\u2019s already spent almost two years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Whitby man Clifton Ling was set free recently in a Belleville courtroom after serving 656 days in jail following a wild<br \/>driving incident in Belleville in September 2023.\u00a0 He was also handed a lifetime weapons prohibition.<\/p>\n<p>City police responded to an intimate partner dispute in the west end but suspect Ling, 41 at the time, drove away from police on Cascade Boulevard.<\/p>\n<p>Soon after, Ling drove his vehicle into a police cruiser, then hit another vehicle on Sidney Street and crashed into a light pole.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of the incident he had already been on eight separate Canada -wide driving prohibitions.\u00a0 He was sentenced for dangerous driving, flight from police, driving while prohibited, and disobeying a court order.\u00a0 Other charges were withdrawn.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; A serial dangerous driver won\u2019t be doing more jail time, however, he\u2019s already spent almost two years&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":69962,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4806,4807,2147,50,4804,4802,4805,4800,4801,4808,4803],"class_list":{"0":"post-69961","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-bancroft","9":"tag-brighton","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-pec","13":"tag-picton","14":"tag-prince-edward-county","15":"tag-quinte","16":"tag-quinte-news","17":"tag-quinte-west","18":"tag-trenton"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114868759190282295","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}