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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.
; T% e9 _+ _4 IRupinder 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.) v* U( b0 ?& n( g% m9 z* X
"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.”
5 r- C3 G1 W3 |) a9 B0 H% LSeveral 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.
+ b. a% x+ m( E0 ?+ D8 u0 {) k% ~7 qConst. Monica Wenzlaff of the Cambridge OPP intercepted the rig at Franklin Boulevard.) Y) w. }8 b+ Y1 a
When she approached the vehicle, both Dhaliwal and another Etobicoke man, his co-driver, were dazed and confused.: _3 s' G& N+ J3 w; w
“He kept closing his eyes and almost falling asleep while I was questioning him,” Wenzlaff wrote in a summary of the case.. d8 k7 u7 N9 A. V5 [; I
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.
5 B& O' f! h' G: N3 \9 c! ^ K& wEventually, the co-driver admitted they had snorted heroin before setting off from Mississauga with a load of baked goods for delivery in California." f! d3 u* B3 K0 n( 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.
1 P# c6 B( _( y“You owe a debt of gratitude to the people who called this in and the officer who stopped you,” Lynch said.
2 }$ A4 }; u2 g; zPolice were told Dhaliwal, who had no prior criminal record, had been driving for a Brampton trucking company for about three years.
: S! n" Z4 K2 }& HIn 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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