Impaired Driving Causing Death

• Crown seeks 5 years for Sherwood Park man guilty of impaired driving causing death

  The Crown is seeking a sentence of five years in jail for a Sherwood Park man who pleaded guilty to impaired driving causing death in an August 2022 collision in Strathcona County.

  Crime

  Apr 21
  
• Nanaimo soccer community mourns man killed in crash with suspected drunk driver

  Reid Davidson, a key member of the Nanaimo United soccer organization, was killed in a head-on crash with a suspected drunk driver last week.

  Crime

  Jul 24, 2023
  
• Advertisement
• ‘It’s a time for love’: Vigil held in honour boy killed in crash in St. Thomas, Ont

  People in red shirts gathered on Monday evening in St. Thomas on what would have been Curtis Aiden’s 12th birthday. The boy was killed last week by an allegedly impaired driver.

  Canada

  Jul 11, 2023
• Advertisement
• 6.5-year sentence for man who drove impaired by cannabis, killing Oakville mother

  'Mr. Hyde read a statement in court apologizing and showing remorse to our family and asked for forgiveness and I don't buy it. I don't accept it,' Louise Whiten's widower said.

  Crime

  Mar 28, 2023
• ‘Despicable and selfish act’: Impaired driver who killed Oakville mother about to be sentenced

  Court heard Louise Whiten was a beloved wife, mother of two teenage boys and well-respected speech pathologist who helped children with autism.

  Crime

  Feb 16, 2023
• Original decision in death of girl ‘legally flawed,’ N.S. Court of Appeal says

  Talia Forrest, a 10-year-old girl, was struck and killed by on the evening of July 11, 2019, while riding her bike with a friend on Black Rock Road in Big Bras d’Or.

  Canada

  Feb 15, 2023
• New trial ordered for N.S. man acquitted in hit-and-run death of 10-year-old girl

  Colin Hugh Tweedie was acquitted of dangerous operation of a motor vehicle causing death, impaired driving causing death, failing to stop at an accident involving death in 2022.

  Canada

  Jan 19, 2023
• Peterborough man arrested for impaired, dangerous driving after fatal 6-vehicle crash in May

  One person died following a multi-vehicle collision around 2 p.m. on May 9 at the intersection of Lansdowne Street and River Road South.

  Crime

  Nov 25, 2022
• Advertisement
• ‘Your bad decisions killed my Auntie’: Tearful sentencing hearing for Toronto impaired driver

  On Jan. 1, 2021, as Isabel Osborne arrived from Peterborough to visit her mother in Toronto, her Honda CRV was struck at a red light by a speeding SUV. She died Jan. 30, 2021.

  Crime

  Nov 24, 2022
• Advertisement
• Man pleads guilty to impaired and dangerous driving charges in fatal west Edmonton collision

  A man has pleaded guilty to impaired driving causing death and dangerous driving causing bodily harm for his role in a collision that left one man dead in May 2020.

  Crime

  Oct 21, 2022