Drunk driving on snowmobile nets fine, ban
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A man who was drunk driving a snowmobile when it collided with a pickup truck has been fined and banned from driving.
But it’s the injuries he suffered in the crash that provided a lesson he’s not likely to forget, his lawyer said.
“He had severe injuries so, what better reminder, I guess, of what can happen when you’re driving under the influence?” defence lawyer Bob Harrison said in Brandon provincial court on Thursday.
Kyle Harrison, 23, pleaded guilty to driving with a blood-alcohol level over the legal limit at CFB Shilo on Feb. 21.
Crown attorney Kaley Tschetter said Harrison was driving a snowmobile with a passenger on board when it hit the truck. Both men were thrown in the crash.
Tschetter said the driver of the pickup truck had seen the snowmobile some distance away. Given the distance and speed limit in the area, he thought he could make a turn in time.
But that wasn’t the case because the snowmachine was travelling at an “excessively high rate of speed,” Tschetter said.
The driver of the pickup truck wasn’t hurt, but Harrison and his passenger were.
Harrison was injured the worst. He remained in hospital for two weeks recovering from a collapsed lung, lacerated spleen and cracked ribs.
Judge Donovan Dvorak noted that impaired driving laws apply to cars and snowmobiles alike, as driving either machine drunk brings a chance of serious injury.
“On that day, you found out the hard way,” Dvorak said.
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