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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.
. ~$ o( ]$ {. N1 \/ r2 U! \. N4 lRupinder 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.- p5 l# _# {$ U. K( `) l5 `3 o
"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.”0 g, j/ `7 z& L5 p8 c g
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.& ?" S& [& `/ `2 Z( X( }; g; G: z) ]
Const. Monica Wenzlaff of the Cambridge OPP intercepted the rig at Franklin Boulevard.# K* h- J q5 {1 p# R( _0 j: \
When she approached the vehicle, both Dhaliwal and another Etobicoke man, his co-driver, were dazed and confused.) O9 J# W$ n, C/ a$ I
“He kept closing his eyes and almost falling asleep while I was questioning him,” Wenzlaff wrote in a summary of the case.
- {4 x, `( b, O2 r* E }9 T5 xThe 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.
$ r4 b8 Z, D$ @! B& \: E& T5 JEventually, the co-driver admitted they had snorted heroin before setting off from Mississauga with a load of baked goods for delivery in California.
p7 h0 ]6 Y- d$ qLynch 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.! e; `& ?* _8 Z& b
“You owe a debt of gratitude to the people who called this in and the officer who stopped you,” Lynch said.
: a2 U, C% ?- ?Police were told Dhaliwal, who had no prior criminal record, had been driving for a Brampton trucking company for about three years.
2 V7 f3 H, D' p0 k4 t5 y" ]) xIn addition to the 90-day jail sentence, he was prohibited from driving for 15 months and fined $200 for a Highway Traffic Act offence. |
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