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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.5 o$ r6 k3 z x! y
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.
3 n) ~& o% \, K( s& |% D9 {4 q6 }! q" y/ D"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.”' ^$ |& P$ G( y) o7 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.3 A8 D& r2 Z+ l0 S
Const. Monica Wenzlaff of the Cambridge OPP intercepted the rig at Franklin Boulevard.
Y4 _: j/ J2 \When she approached the vehicle, both Dhaliwal and another Etobicoke man, his co-driver, were dazed and confused.
! Z+ p: y$ [8 U7 d n6 Q8 g! ^“He kept closing his eyes and almost falling asleep while I was questioning him,” Wenzlaff wrote in a summary of the case.
4 C- _! s* r5 n% A9 MThe 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.+ d, V _- M) @" T
Eventually, the co-driver admitted they had snorted heroin before setting off from Mississauga with a load of baked goods for delivery in California.$ D3 W4 ^% u( O3 j* I, r
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.9 h+ S3 y9 z2 ]: }) j# }
“You owe a debt of gratitude to the people who called this in and the officer who stopped you,” Lynch said.
% j$ l$ x# v1 W/ tPolice were told Dhaliwal, who had no prior criminal record, had been driving for a Brampton trucking company for about three years.$ o7 Z" [. R6 }% @1 C0 x% k
In 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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