2.5 year sentence for driver in crash that killed Canadian Olympic ice dancer

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Sukhwinder Sidhu has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison for killing Olympian Alexandra Paul and injuring four others, including her 10-month-old son.

He was behind the wheel of his transport truck for more than 16 hours when he crashed into several cars in a construction zone nearly three years ago in Melancthon Township, a small, rural southern Ontario community.

Sidhu pleaded guilty just days ahead of his trial in February to dangerous driving causing death and bodily harm in the horrific crash along County Road 124 on Aug. 22, 2023.

The court heard he was working for 26 hours, including driving for almost 16 hours straight before barrelling into Paul’s car, sending it crashing into a ditch while her little boy screamed.

Paul was an Olympic figure skater from Midhurst, Ont., just 90 minutes north of Toronto. Her husband, Mitch Islam, who she skated alongside, described the life-shattering consequences of Sidhu’s actions.

“The family I dreamed of will never be whole,” Islam said, telling the court of losing his wife and the mother of his little boy before he took his first steps or celebrated his first birthday.

Islam described marrying the girl of his dreams, ”as partners on and off the ice for more than 12 years, calling their bond ‘unbreakable,’“ reliving the moment he found out his wife has died on her way home from the family cottage that day.

Their son, who was pulled out of the wreck by Sidhu, was taken to SickKids Hospital with a broken leg.

more at https://www.ctvnews.ca/barrie/article/transport-truck-driver-sentenced-in-horrific-crash-that-killed-olympian-young-mother/
 

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Very sad.  Hope the trucker wasn't ordered to work that long without rest.