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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.
: K* h! q% c% `% }' 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.2 Y/ ^/ O/ r9 s1 R
"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.”
# l8 _: c4 a, k6 Y: e1 L# S7 y' 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.$ E9 r0 ]. o" a4 f, V
Const. Monica Wenzlaff of the Cambridge OPP intercepted the rig at Franklin Boulevard./ k# X- C0 n8 U4 C4 ^
When she approached the vehicle, both Dhaliwal and another Etobicoke man, his co-driver, were dazed and confused.! w: k3 W, L- V' s
“He kept closing his eyes and almost falling asleep while I was questioning him,” Wenzlaff wrote in a summary of the case.
4 l8 t$ ~* J, i. e TThe 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.3 j7 y. `: G; d9 C
Eventually, the co-driver admitted they had snorted heroin before setting off from Mississauga with a load of baked goods for delivery in California.
7 I6 _* \* e, A7 @# [7 PLynch 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.$ }( }- g* ?7 l- b
“You owe a debt of gratitude to the people who called this in and the officer who stopped you,” Lynch said.8 ?$ g' S- e9 v# \! w1 e& z
Police were told Dhaliwal, who had no prior criminal record, had been driving for a Brampton trucking company for about three years.) L; u) u& e1 ~1 U! v
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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