Trucker guilty in fatal 401 crash

A 75-year Quebec trucker has been found guilty in connection to a 2015 crash that killed four people.

On Sept. 14, Mohinder Singh Saini was convicted of four counts of dangerous driving causing death and nine counts of dangerous driving causing bodily harm.

On Oct. 2, 2015 Saini was traveling westbound on the Highway 401, when his truck collided with a number of other vehicles that were stopped in a construction zone.

Three people, including a 12-year-old boy from Mexico, were killed that night.

Another boy, 10, died two days later in hospital.

In his ruling, Ontario Superior Court Justice Bryan Shaughnessy stated it was not a case of “momentary or ‘mere’ inattention.”

“This pattern of driving constituted a significant and substantial period of inattentiveness,” the judge wrote.

Saini will return to court on Oct. 5, almost four years to the day of the crash, for victim impact statements and is scheduled to be sentenced on Nov. 9.

He potentially faces up to 14 years in prison.