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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.
& w/ C; x. g1 r/ N! k+ `) @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.1 l8 Y$ N1 U9 @ U9 T
"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.”) [7 }6 {' O0 I) e! ^" |
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.
, Z2 g- o- K) c) G/ I4 L. eConst. Monica Wenzlaff of the Cambridge OPP intercepted the rig at Franklin Boulevard.
7 {" l( w; u6 F7 q1 l7 Z2 HWhen she approached the vehicle, both Dhaliwal and another Etobicoke man, his co-driver, were dazed and confused.9 {- C L6 h$ }4 x
“He kept closing his eyes and almost falling asleep while I was questioning him,” Wenzlaff wrote in a summary of the case.
9 ^; r% @$ _& U1 v6 p. A8 S2 x: sThe 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 H0 n$ k4 d, oEventually, the co-driver admitted they had snorted heroin before setting off from Mississauga with a load of baked goods for delivery in California.# y; |5 f) W4 {
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.0 L0 G5 r% |: t1 u N
“You owe a debt of gratitude to the people who called this in and the officer who stopped you,” Lynch said.) G0 b/ z$ z! }4 H
Police were told Dhaliwal, who had no prior criminal record, had been driving for a Brampton trucking company for about three years.5 p8 r6 p: x$ X
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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