Source: Charlottetown Guardian
PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND - The driver of a car in which two teenaged Holland College students died following a single-vehicle crash last September in Roseneath was sentenced Tuesday to 16 months in jail.
Supreme Court Justice Wayne Cheverie agreed to imposing the length of sentence jointly recommended by the Crown and the Defence against James H. Miners, a native of Chatham, Ont., for two counts of dangerous driving causing death.
Cheverie sentenced Miners to 24 months probation following his release from a provincial institution and will not be allowed to drive a motor vehicle for two years from the time of his release.
Miners was also sentenced to six months, to be served concurrently with his 24-month sentence, on two counts of dangerous driving causing bodily harm.
Miners pled guilty to the charges that arose after from a collision that resulted from his speeding through an intersection at Poole’s Corner and losing control of the vehicle. A collision analyst estimated that Miners was traveling 132 km/hr in a 60 km/hr zone.
Kyle Gallant, 19, of Summerside and Jamie Bone, 18, of Fredericton, N.B. both died at the scene. Two other passengers were injured in the crash.
“To say this is a sad case is an understatement,’’ said Cheverie.
Family members of the victims wept as they read heartwrenching impact statements in the court room before Cheverie imposed sentence.
Source: CBC.ca [Nov 23, 2009]
James Miner pleads guilty in fatal crash deaths of Kyle Gallant and Jamie Bone
PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND - A young man has pleaded guilty to dangerous driving in a crash that killed two fellow students in eastern Prince Edward Island and injured two others.
James Miners, 19, was driving a Jeep Cherokee with four passengers last fall when it left the road at Poole's Corner. All five were students at Holland College's Georgetown campus.
Kyle Gallant, 19 of Wilmot Valley and Jamie Bone, 18 of Fredericton, died at the scene.
Miners, a native of Chatham, Ont., was speeding at the time. Police had gathered witnesses who told them how Miners had been driving from the time he left Charlottetown until the vehicle left the road at Poole's Corner.
He will be sentenced Tuesday morning in Charlottetown.
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