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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 e# i# _4 \& h; i+ b. }2 H5 Z$ vRupinder 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.
" m3 e2 m7 ^- {! ^3 e"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.”, |+ k6 B9 h# S( X4 F
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 Z' K- c. O% m* z( Y& O) k: \9 t
Const. Monica Wenzlaff of the Cambridge OPP intercepted the rig at Franklin Boulevard.
+ S* r2 j- I9 y4 Y( ^& LWhen she approached the vehicle, both Dhaliwal and another Etobicoke man, his co-driver, were dazed and confused.0 H9 Y' p r G; K, e+ J: o
“He kept closing his eyes and almost falling asleep while I was questioning him,” Wenzlaff wrote in a summary of the case.
8 T* y/ n8 D- R0 a# j3 GThe 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.
4 b3 s0 H1 m& K% J% }2 cEventually, the co-driver admitted they had snorted heroin before setting off from Mississauga with a load of baked goods for delivery in California.: J0 }' r6 Y' [7 ?" a7 f
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.
# D* t D) c& ^! m" a5 ]9 w: \“You owe a debt of gratitude to the people who called this in and the officer who stopped you,” Lynch said.
( E3 }! M8 O. f$ {9 i, w' nPolice were told Dhaliwal, who had no prior criminal record, had been driving for a Brampton trucking company for about three years.
4 @8 P' R+ Y1 uIn 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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