A London woman convicted of criminal negligence for a crash that killed a young Girl Guide won't be sent to jail to serve her sentence

She was driving 120km/h in a 50km/h school zone.

  • MentalEdge
    161·
    4 months ago

    Apparently she thought she was applying the brake pedal. She insists that was the case, that she was not mistaken, and that the error lies with the car. She refuses to entertain the possibility of human error on her part.

    Mechanics have not found anything wrong with the car, and telemetry indicates the accelerator pedal was held to the floor.

    Even though McNorgan dodged a prison term that the Crown wanted, defence lawyer Phillip Millar said McNorgan maintains she did nothing wrong and they still plan to appeal her convictions and sentence to the Ontario Court of Appeal.

    Either way, she clearly can’t be allowed to drive ever again, at minimum. The current sentence bans her from driving for five years, but she has already taken a driving test in case she does get to drive again.

    • PenguinTD@lemmy.caEnglish
      6·
      4 months ago

      that’s entirely not possible even if she is driving a F1 car since it takes time and distance to get up to that speed. if the attorney can fetch her phone location tracking record, can roughly know how fast she usually travel on a car for the days before that accident.

      • John_McMurray@lemmy.ca
        32·
        4 months ago

        Probably fell asleep or had a “senior” moment, didn’t really know what was happening

  • mysticpickle@lemmy.ca
    13·
    4 months ago

    That’s some real bullshit there. She should be behind bars for the rest of her thoughtless life for killing a child. Hope the families destroy her in a civil suit.