MistyWaters
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Honestly, I do know how to spell, usually.
Honestly, I do know how to spell, usually.
I will be surprised if he gets the ten year sentence I don’t know what will happen.
Reading through the victim statements that have been posted so far has been absolutely gut wrenching. I feel so badly for them and can relate to the billet family statement about how these young men become family members during their time with us and the important (and not so important) conversations we have with them during the 8-9 month hockey season. My current billet (7th) is here for a second year and is preparing for college/university after the season. Lots of life lessons going on these past two years for him.
I vividly remember my first billet studying for the SAT's (to play NCAA hockey) and the days of tears and frustration we worked through to get him confident enough to get a good score and go on to finish 4 yrs of American College. We don't have a test like that for University/College here in Canada and the SAT's are intensive OMG, especially for a young person who struggled all through his school years. Six yrs later we still keep in contact and he comes back every spring to play in my work golf tournament. He's now playing hockey in Europe.
While I don't believe the driver of the transport intended to kill innocent people on April 6th, 2018, his lack of record keeping and following industry standards (for logs) and hours even as a fairly new driver shows an indifference to the rules that is sadly all too common in trucking. It was only a matter of time IMO that he was involved in a tragic situation.
Thank you for all the updates everyone they are much appreciated. I’m in the hospital so haven’t been able to closely follow the news of the case. I will be surprised if he gets the ten year sentence I don’t know what will happen.
Thank you for all the updates everyone they are much appreciated. I’m in the hospital so haven’t been able to closely follow the news of the case. I will be surprised if he gets the ten year sentence I don’t know what will happen.
I do hope you’re out soon!
The possible sentencing is quite of topic of casual conversation and it’s interesting how the opinions of people amongst the general public vary, much the same as the array of emotions expressed during the reading of the victim impact statements.
Fate of truck driver in Humboldt Broncos bus crash will test sentencing system: experts
“Brown said determining a proper sentence for Sidhu will be challenging because the judge lacks comparable cases.
He also said the typical signs of bad driving are missing. That makes it tough to craft a sentence that discourages people from a specific action, such as drinking and driving.
“How do we deter other people from missing stop signs?” Brown said.
“He wasn’t distracted by his cellphone,” he said.
“He simply missed the traffic signal.”...”
Thank you for the good wishes I hope to be out very soon.
I personally think the sentence will be 5-7 years jail time. Will he serve that and then have to leave Canada?
I still don’t understand why he didn’t just stop and I think the fact he didn’t will live with him till the day he dies.
Is the truck company owner banned from running another truck company in the future? He is not fit to do so.
After all of the victim impact statements, will the driver have an opportunity to speak? I think so....just can't remember.