Prosecutors weren't convinced they could obtain a guilty verdict against the now-bankrupt Montreal Maine and Atlantic Railway.

The circumstances of the crime are not in doubt. A car ran a Kelowna RCMP roadblock in December 2013. During the following high-speed police pursuit the suspect vehicle struck a passerby.

In December 2013, a driver fleeing Kelowna RCMP in a high-speed chase slammed into a newspaper carrier doing his route. Steve Kania suffered permanent, life-altering brain damage and other injuries.