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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.4 [. g0 B. Q9 F! O/ T1 X# d
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.: c8 r% N9 H! w, j# ?. f9 ~% a
"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! P) X$ E* Y$ [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.2 s2 y' n4 g& [$ e c% }
Const. Monica Wenzlaff of the Cambridge OPP intercepted the rig at Franklin Boulevard.
9 z2 Z3 [" C9 `1 `, [When she approached the vehicle, both Dhaliwal and another Etobicoke man, his co-driver, were dazed and confused.
* y% D% l$ Q. k- ~9 h“He kept closing his eyes and almost falling asleep while I was questioning him,” Wenzlaff wrote in a summary of the case.$ w, c) I4 J: Z- u j2 G$ t% B- |" K
The 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.
6 H* A; l* K. Z) D7 ?3 p3 `Eventually, the co-driver admitted they had snorted heroin before setting off from Mississauga with a load of baked goods for delivery in California.
' z6 }0 C5 V* M( D9 B" P, bLynch 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.
( Q' N9 f* r8 W( v! A( | Y) C/ [“You owe a debt of gratitude to the people who called this in and the officer who stopped you,” Lynch said.
& N4 t6 R! ^* a# [* w% |2 dPolice were told Dhaliwal, who had no prior criminal record, had been driving for a Brampton trucking company for about three years.2 M4 O. }/ j2 C6 j. a
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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