Hit And Run Sentence

• Ex-B.C. taxi driver a no-show in court, sentenced in absentia for 2019 hit-and-run

  The collision left a Vancouver lawyer with injuries so catastrophic the judge said even though he survived "his life was taken from him."

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  Jun 16, 2023
  
• Hit-and-run driver who killed 3 Kamloops international students gets 3 years in prison

  Kamloops RCMP said Friday that Reid McKnight, a former Canadian Armed Forces reservist, pleaded guilty to two charges in the crash.

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  Dec 3, 2021
  
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• Anthony Creed Cortez sentenced to 23 months in jail for crash that killed B.C. mother of 4

  Anthony Creed Cortez, 42, was also handed two years probation and a 10-year driving ban after earlier pleading guilty to dangerous driving causing death and motor vehicle theft.

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  Oct 30, 2021
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• ‘Speeding and lying to cover it up’: B.C. judge considers tougher sentence for deadly impaired driver

  "It is rare that I might go higher than what Crown has submitted but this might be one of those cases," Judge Karen Whonnock told the court at Ryan Grob's sentencing hearing.

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  Aug 29, 2021
• Remarkable scene of forgiveness in B.C. court as driver in fatal hit-and-run sentenced

  Micheal Howard Thomas was allegedly drunk and speeding more than 90 km/h over the speed limit when he struck and killed Tassis Vix, a 32-year-old mother.

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  Sep 10, 2020
• Vancouver hit and run victim receives record-setting $100K damages award

  A B.C. Supreme Court judge has awarded Veronica Howell a precedent-setting $100,000 in punitive damages — part of an over $3-million ruling against the driver.

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  Oct 16, 2017