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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.
2 y0 n# K l7 v! ?) d3 V$ R8 \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.' {7 b1 h$ ^/ D: N
"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.”" p( T) U% {% ^+ H, Q8 I
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.
, L2 d/ U( ~ B! ~: P! NConst. Monica Wenzlaff of the Cambridge OPP intercepted the rig at Franklin Boulevard.
) h1 b/ ^6 R% l2 gWhen she approached the vehicle, both Dhaliwal and another Etobicoke man, his co-driver, were dazed and confused.( d$ M% ^; g4 t/ Q0 N: \
“He kept closing his eyes and almost falling asleep while I was questioning him,” Wenzlaff wrote in a summary of the case.
+ @- E5 _ N+ n" @" w( VThe 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.: q- z2 }; ~7 ^; u0 J1 Q1 t, A
Eventually, the co-driver admitted they had snorted heroin before setting off from Mississauga with a load of baked goods for delivery in California.) m% T, Z, r8 ^' ^! m2 \
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.& y6 v# e6 X4 _
“You owe a debt of gratitude to the people who called this in and the officer who stopped you,” Lynch said.' ^1 e8 Z4 I( Z `1 c( k
Police were told Dhaliwal, who had no prior criminal record, had been driving for a Brampton trucking company for about three years.; Z0 l! k/ a8 t) S& I7 B- h
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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