No jail time for man driving unlit farm vehicle in fatal Delta, B.C. crash

The antheral who was driving an unlit workplace conveyance progressive successful a deadly Delta, B.C., clang 3 years agone won’t walk clip down bars.

Jasdeep Singh Sandhu pleaded blameworthy to unsafe driving causing decease successful the October 2021 clang connected Highway 17A. He was operating a slow-moving 14,500-kg legume harvester erstwhile 77-year-old Joan Sherry slammed into it from down and died.

On Tuesday, B.C. Provincial Court Judge Reg Harris sided with Sandhu’s defence, handing him a suspended condemnation with 3 years of probation.

The conditions of the condemnation see a 7 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew for the archetypal year, on with a prohibition connected nighttime driving and a prohibition connected operating thing larger than a four-door conveyance for the archetypal year. He indispensable besides implicit 150 hours of assemblage service.

At a sentencing proceeding successful September, Sandhu apologized for his relation successful the crash, tearfully telling the court, “If I could alteration the events of that time I would bash truthful successful a heartbeat.”

The tribunal has antecedently heard that the slow-moving legume harvester had nary rear lights, nary reddish flags and nary wide-load signage.

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The idiosyncratic who was expected to beryllium driving a aviator car accompanying it was taking a ablution and had planned to conscionable Sandhu halfway to his destination.

Prosecutors had sought a two-year conditional condemnation and a five-year driving ban, arguing the collision was wholly Sandhu’s responsibility and the merchandise of intentional risk-taking.

Sandhu’s defence argued helium had suffered a “momentary lapse successful judgment.”

Criminal charges were not initially recommended, but that changed aft an autarkic reappraisal of the Delta constabulary investigation.