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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.! @# C) x2 F, s- d
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.
: y) w i& C8 c& L$ d"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 ?7 K( r* Z+ q( q4 S; |+ c7 o
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.- b2 k& s) Q9 l* e4 l; P
Const. Monica Wenzlaff of the Cambridge OPP intercepted the rig at Franklin Boulevard.
9 p+ j7 z1 R' x3 l8 {: ?When she approached the vehicle, both Dhaliwal and another Etobicoke man, his co-driver, were dazed and confused.5 l2 N: \1 l+ r a: c. z! M* ]
“He kept closing his eyes and almost falling asleep while I was questioning him,” Wenzlaff wrote in a summary of the case.9 o6 ~5 v4 F7 d) @+ {% X2 D7 T
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./ C& m; q, ]* }% @% o# S$ I1 T, X
Eventually, the co-driver admitted they had snorted heroin before setting off from Mississauga with a load of baked goods for delivery in California.
- [3 V/ l1 I7 ?( sLynch 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.
8 [/ v7 B! r. M. _- V- g“You owe a debt of gratitude to the people who called this in and the officer who stopped you,” Lynch said.
+ E7 |0 Q: |; b* aPolice were told Dhaliwal, who had no prior criminal record, had been driving for a Brampton trucking company for about three years.: ~( s$ `* E7 R
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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