The man behind the wheel in a 2016 hit-and-run that claimed the life of a Vancouver skateboarder four years ago will spend 18 months behind bars.
Amanpreet Singh Sohal was also given a one-year driving ban as a part of a sentence handed down Wednesday.
Sohal pleaded guilty to failing to stop at the scene of an accident causing death on Feb. 12, 2020. A second charge of dangerous driving causing death was stayed at the end of sentencing, said a spokesperson for the BC Prosecution Service.
The collision happened on Apr. 17, 2016, when Ryan Barron, 30, was skateboarding with a friend near Heather Street and West 54th Avenue.
Vancouver police seized a vehicle believed to be involved in the crash two days later, but charges weren’t announced until more than two years later.