高级会员
- 积分
- 776
- 获赠鲜花
- 23 朵
- 个人财富
- 3571 金币
- 注册时间
- 2011-1-23
|
友情提示: 请千万不要登入陌生网站输入QQ号和密码,以防诈骗。
联系我时,请说明是从哪儿看到的,谢谢。
A truck driver carrying a load of baked goods from Mississauga to California was so high on heroin that he had to be put on life-support after getting caught careening along Hwy. 401 in Cambridge.8 _4 a! P. \; N5 S Z& P
Rupinder Dhaliwal, 29, of Etobicoke spent two days in hospital and is now facing 90 days in jail — to be served on weekends — after leading guilty yesterday (Aug. 26) to dangerous driving and impaired driving.+ S' D, B1 E, d% k% ]- H; V6 f
"I can’t imagine a situation much more dangerous than the one you created,” Justice John Lynch told Dhaliwal. “You are a potential killer, sir.”: k( w6 H ~. l: M( c- J
Several motorists called police after seeing a tractor-trailer swerving across all three lanes and the shoulder of the westbound highway in steady traffic one morning in February.
& a- b1 C3 }. k; ~+ Z; u) tConst. Monica Wenzlaff of the Cambridge OPP intercepted the rig at Franklin Boulevard.
( r& {7 S5 `! G) |0 Z' NWhen she approached the vehicle, both Dhaliwal and another Etobicoke man, his co-driver, were dazed and confused.3 b7 @* h' \: H& ~/ S
“He kept closing his eyes and almost falling asleep while I was questioning him,” Wenzlaff wrote in a summary of the case.
9 P( V& J- ~8 i. i# y/ J3 d+ M6 VThe officer was so concerned, she called an ambulance and Dhaliwal was taken to Cambridge Memorial Hospital. Doctors couldn’t determine what was wrong and he was put on life-support while authorities investigated possible carbon monoxide poisoning.( M9 f/ c1 w Z& K3 d
Eventually, the co-driver admitted they had snorted heroin before setting off from Mississauga with a load of baked goods for delivery in California.
8 J" @5 y9 n( |- N# V( y! ^Lynch stressed the potential for disaster since Dhaliwal was so out of it that Wenzlaff had a hard time even getting his attention in a marked cruiser with its siren wailing.) I# n( N5 e; N
“You owe a debt of gratitude to the people who called this in and the officer who stopped you,” Lynch said.0 t6 \/ B! {2 u8 ]: o h, P3 q6 ]
Police were told Dhaliwal, who had no prior criminal record, had been driving for a Brampton trucking company for about three years.
4 x# |5 U* j# _0 b3 a! eIn addition to the 90-day jail sentence, he was prohibited from driving for 15 months and fined $200 for a Highway Traffic Act offence. |
|