Truck driver in Humboldt Broncos crash sentenced to 8 years
Posted March 22, 2019 10:16 am.
Last Updated March 22, 2019 6:15 pm.
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SASKATCHEWAN (NEWS 1130) – Jaskirat Singh Sidhu, responsible for killing 16 people and injuring 13 more in the Humboldt Broncos bus crash has been sentenced to eight years in prison.
The decision came down in a Saskatchewan courtroom. Sidhu had pleaded guilty to 29 dangerous driving counts.
He was handed down eight years for each count of dangerous driving causing death and five years for dangerous driving causing bodily harm. The sentences to be served concurrently.
The judge began her decision by reading each victim’s name aloud.
Crown had requested for a 10-year sentence while Singh’s lawyers had argued for a one-and-a-half or four-year sentence.
Sidhu barrelled through a stop sign and into the path of the junior hockey team’s bus at a rural Saskatchewan intersection last April.
A sentencing hearing in January heard that Sidhu was going between 86 and 96 km/h when he passed four signs warning him about the upcoming intersection before he came up to an oversized stop sign with a flashing light.
“The Humboldt Broncos organization is thankful that this legal matter has been resolved and that Mr. Sidhu is being held to account for his careless actions,” read a statement from the Humboldt Broncos. “As was stated before, it is appreciated that Mr. Sidhu took responsibility for his actions and that he spared the survivors, families and the community from reliving this tragedy during a trial.”
-With files from Courtney Theriault, Simon Druker and The Canadian Press
