The offender, a professional truck driver, pleaded guilty to dangerous driving causing death and dangerous driving causing bodily harm after crashing his tractor trailer into stopped traffic in a construction zone.
The crash killed one person and seriously injured several others.
The court weighed the aggravating factors, including the offender's excessive speed and fatigued driving, against mitigating factors such as his guilty plea and lack of criminal record.
Emphasizing denunciation and general deterrence, the court rejected a conditional sentence and imposed a 30-month penitentiary sentence along with a 7-year driving prohibition.
