P.E.I. man gets jail for crashing truck, driving drunk over four times legal limit
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Crashing his truck right into a cement median and a visitors signal pole on the Charlottetown bypass whereas driving drunk greater than 4 instances over the authorized restrict has led to jail time for a P.E.I. man.
“I did fallacious. I admit it,” mentioned Nicholas Bert Taylor, 43, who pleaded responsible on June 1 and was sentenced in provincial court docket in Charlottetown for impaired driving.
Crown lawyer Emily Campbell instructed the court docket that on Thursday, March 30 at 9 p.m., Charlottetown police acquired a 911 name a few single-vehicle accident on the bypass and Brackley Level Highway intersection. Witnesses instructed police that the automobile struck the cement centre median and a visitors signal pole. Police arrived and noticed Taylor’s purple Dodge Ram truck partially on the median dealing with east within the bypass’s westbound lane.
Taylor confirmed indicators of impairment, similar to slurred speech, and was arrested for impaired driving. On the Charlottetown police station, he offered two breathalyzer samples of 350 milligrams (mg) of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood – greater than 4 instances over the authorized restrict of 80 mg.
Taylor didn’t have a previous felony document.
Chief Decide Jeff Lantz sentenced Taylor to 14 days in jail, a $2,000 high quality and a $600 sufferer surcharge. Lantz famous that the blood-alcohol readings of 350 mg had been “fairly uncommon and fairly excessive.”
“On this case, you ran onto a median, hit an indication (and) a pole. You are fortunate it wasn’t an individual or one other automobile,” mentioned the choose.
Taylor was additionally banned from driving for one yr plus the time in jail.
Lantz awarded $1,250 in restitution to the P.E.I. authorities for the broken signal and pole.
Taylor, a dairy farmer, was allowed to serve the jail sentence on weekends so he might proceed to maintain his cows in the course of the week.
