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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; h/ B3 n4 h' k' }+ c* J
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.
' E6 S- r* Q! Z* o8 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.”
+ E* \; ^ y9 `% _5 VSeveral 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., j; n. S* q/ P+ H( g6 l' }
Const. Monica Wenzlaff of the Cambridge OPP intercepted the rig at Franklin Boulevard.
. K d# N4 P, PWhen she approached the vehicle, both Dhaliwal and another Etobicoke man, his co-driver, were dazed and confused.& t/ u2 R- c1 R9 T2 V
“He kept closing his eyes and almost falling asleep while I was questioning him,” Wenzlaff wrote in a summary of the case.
$ e# e9 }1 r5 WThe 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./ y @- j8 N) @7 V% o/ D
Eventually, the co-driver admitted they had snorted heroin before setting off from Mississauga with a load of baked goods for delivery in California.
4 @) x- ~. t. 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.* Q( W+ R0 h- K$ I v9 j/ z
“You owe a debt of gratitude to the people who called this in and the officer who stopped you,” Lynch said.
. U! O4 `7 s$ y$ m- B5 J- SPolice were told Dhaliwal, who had no prior criminal record, had been driving for a Brampton trucking company for about three years.
- `' x `7 p+ b' g* P; e# qIn 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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