In the Unites States we take drinking and driving seriously. There are strict penalties for drunk drivers involved in car accidents involving death. Canada follows in those footsteps when they sentenced a woman to 2 years in jail for an accident involving death.
Canada courts sentenced a young woman to two years in jail for killing two college students and seriously injuring another while driving drunk, speeding and texting.
The 21-year-old, who was 17 when she ran a red light in Winnipeg, killing the two students on Halloween 2010, tried to get a minimum sentence of probation only. When she heard her maximum sentence of two years in jail plus one year of probation, she broke down in tears, reports Winnipeg Free Press.
She was not the only person unhappy with the verdict.
“Today was definitely a disappointment, but I guess, talking to a lot of lawyers in the last five years, this is supposed to be deemed fair — although I don’t think it’s fair,” Heidi Subramaniam, whose 17-year-old sister was killed in the crash, told CBC News. The prosecution tried to have her sentenced as an adult, in which case she could have received up to five years in jail.
