Tag: Impaired driving
Amid uptick in fatal impaired-driving crashes, OPP pledge more enforcement
Facing a surge of impaired driving cases, Ontario Provincial Police are stepping up the effort to combat the potentially deadly crime.
Golf pro gets 4 1/2 years for fatal drunken hit-and-run: ‘Cowardly’
Former golf pro David MacMicken joined a long list of local impaired drivers who have killed innocent bystanders after getting behind the wheel and driving drunk. That wasn’t lost on Superior Court Justice Michael Carnegie on Thursday when he sentenced MacMicken, 52, to the recommended 4 1/2 years in prison, when he rhymed off a […]
Impaired driving charge in crash that sent pickup truck into townhouse
London police say impaired driving charges have been laid following a spectacular middle-of-the-night crash that sent a parked pickup truck through the wall of a west-end townhouse.
Analysis: London-area impaired drivers, their deadly toll and legal fallout
What Superior Court Justice Michael Carnegie had to say this week about London-area impaired driving cases bears repeating. “Sadly, London plays a rather tragic starring role” in setting the sentencing ranges for the country’s impaired driving laws, Carnegie said during a sentencing hearing for David MacMicken, 52, a golf pro who struck and killed skateboarding […]
8 years in prison for impaired driver in crash that killed woman, hurt husband
A London man with three past convictions for impaired driving was sentenced Monday to eight years in prison for a 2019 crash that killed a woman and seriously injured her husband of 49 years.
Prison for impaired driver, 22, who killed best friend in crash
A 22-year-old Dresden woman has been handed a five-year prison term for impaired driving causing death in a 2021 crash that killed her best friend.
Prison for impaired driver, 22, who killed best friend in crash
A 22-year-old Dresden woman has been handed a five-year prison term for impaired driving causing death in a 2021 crash that killed her best friend.
Sentencing looms for drunk driver in crash that killed teenage friend
A Dresden woman found guilty of impaired driving causing death in a crash that killed her friend will learn her fate in early February.
Ex-Woodstock mayor charged with impaired driving after crash
Already facing charges in two sexual assault cases, the former mayor of Woodstock is charged with impaired driving following a crash that injured one person Monday night.
Prison for local man with nine prior impaired driving convictions
A 60-year-old man with nine previous convictions for impaired driving has been sent to prison despite having what his lawyer called a “heart of gold.” The lawyer, Lisa Gunn, said David Alphonse Versnick, 60, of Bayham, located southeast of London in Elgin County, exercises bad judgment and gets himself into situations that could easily be […]