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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.! S0 j" K" h/ V7 z' t. M) M! p5 C
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.
' Q+ B1 x/ ~& ]7 C. E* V"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.”% L% Y8 f- x8 H1 [
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 H- [1 r5 C" B8 s0 V3 v& x" J- I
Const. Monica Wenzlaff of the Cambridge OPP intercepted the rig at Franklin Boulevard.' e8 O: L: H$ k1 P7 _
When she approached the vehicle, both Dhaliwal and another Etobicoke man, his co-driver, were dazed and confused./ a5 `# Y9 q5 b! \* i- V7 l
“He kept closing his eyes and almost falling asleep while I was questioning him,” Wenzlaff wrote in a summary of the case.
: b9 e7 v0 g8 O. ]: k6 r* lThe 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.% Q" e. i( P" W) K% |& U3 o
Eventually, the co-driver admitted they had snorted heroin before setting off from Mississauga with a load of baked goods for delivery in California.
. _6 U6 Z" v* T, U# }1 e# Q: cLynch 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.
$ L) _" U. n7 [* P“You owe a debt of gratitude to the people who called this in and the officer who stopped you,” Lynch said. j+ m; L2 q1 Z' r$ ]% y
Police were told Dhaliwal, who had no prior criminal record, had been driving for a Brampton trucking company for about three years.# ~# e# {9 t5 B5 ^' x* I
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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