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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 c# D1 [/ f/ T$ W7 ^
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.
" L* m9 m& f- q: e& k"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.” m/ I/ q1 C# U. |; t
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. s/ y8 H2 z+ p0 I; I& d
Const. Monica Wenzlaff of the Cambridge OPP intercepted the rig at Franklin Boulevard.7 T! r- }6 Y3 W* _( V
When she approached the vehicle, both Dhaliwal and another Etobicoke man, his co-driver, were dazed and confused.
+ q! l" G0 p& t$ V“He kept closing his eyes and almost falling asleep while I was questioning him,” Wenzlaff wrote in a summary of the case.: v" H! {" u& i$ S/ L
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.0 e1 f$ [1 P; m1 S2 ]. _
Eventually, the co-driver admitted they had snorted heroin before setting off from Mississauga with a load of baked goods for delivery in California.
$ r+ N/ o0 t8 [5 e! W- eLynch 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.$ B3 `+ z2 {9 T. y' U/ X8 Z8 ^
“You owe a debt of gratitude to the people who called this in and the officer who stopped you,” Lynch said.) Q; M( T5 l% F6 Y' _ L1 W
Police were told Dhaliwal, who had no prior criminal record, had been driving for a Brampton trucking company for about three years.
7 T* x0 ~, P3 f9 dIn 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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