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Professional truck driver sentenced to 30 months' imprisonment for fatal construction zone crash.
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.
Joint sentencing position accepted and 20-year SOIRA order imposed after child pornography pleas.
The accused pleaded guilty to possessing and accessing child pornography, and the parties presented a joint submission on sentence.
The court accepted an 18-month custodial term followed by three years' probation, finding the scale and nature of the material placed the offending in an upper reformatory range.
The defence sought to limit SOIRA registration to incarceration, but the court held the statutory presumption for a 20-year order was not displaced.
Applying s. 490.012 factors and recent appellate guidance, the court found ongoing registration would further the public purpose of preventing and investigating sexual offences.
