Alberta man sentenced in B.C. after dangerous driving crash caught on video - BERITAJA

An Alberta driver has been sentenced for dangerous driving successful B.C. aft moving complete a tow motortruck and a Mercedes successful his tractor-trailer.

BC Highway Patrol has released video of the incident.

On Dec. 8, 2023, a BC Highway Patrol serviceman was moving pinch a tow motortruck usability to impound a Mercedes for excessive speeding connected Highway 1, conscionable westbound of Field successful Yoho National Park.

The tow motortruck did person its flashing amber lights activated to pass drivers to slow down and move over, BC Highway Patrol said.

Just aft 8:30 p.m., 38-year-old Dalvir Singh Jhattu collapsed into the backmost of the tow truck, destroying that vehicle, the tractor-trailer and the Mercedes.

“Luckily the tow motortruck operator, the constabulary officer, and the Mercedes driver were safely disconnected to the broadside of the road, aliases they would surely person been killed,” Cpl. Michael McLaughlin pinch BC Highway Patrol said successful a statement.

“The tractor-trailer driver could easy person died arsenic his motortruck rolled complete and he became trapped.”

Jhattu was recovered blameworthy of vulnerable driving and connected April 8, 2026, he was sentenced to a six-month conditional condemnation order, 90 days of location arrest, a 12-month Canada-wide driving prohibition and conditions, including nary possession aliases depletion of alcohol, narcotics aliases intoxicating substances.

BC Highway Patrol released video of the incident to punctual drivers of the Slow Down Move Over law.

When flashing amber aliases red/blue lights are present, the rule requires:

• All drivers to slow down to nether 70 km/h erstwhile the velocity limit is complete 80 km/h,
• Drivers move to the farthest safe and ineligible driving lane distant from the flashing lights and emergency responders.