Victim of deadly crash hated the thought of drunk driving

[mesaywee]

http://www.calgarysun.com/2015/05/03...-planned-ahead

Sun article about Jillian Lavallee, killed while making the responsible decision not to drink and drive.

This is a trust her family has set up to benefit the Cab drivers family (father of two young girls) and MADD Canada. If you have anything to donate please do.

https://chimp.net/groups/jillian-lav...7s+Legacy+Fund

[Aeneas]

Very sad.

[Flames_Gimp]

sad story. the drunk driver should get a murder charge

[polak]

Friend of a friend. Don't think I ever met her but sad stuff.

[Coys1882]

Too bad breathalyzer ignitions weren't standard on all vehicles like seatbelts are now.

[FlamesAddiction]

There is a video of the wreckage here:

http://globalnews.ca/news/1975342/se...e-to-hospital/

There also a 3rd car involved and the person is in serious condition.

[Language]

I was driving home past this intersection mere minutes before the accident. Came home and heard the sirens. Lives ended in the blink of an eye, so very tragic.

The fund this family has started on behalf of the other victim's family is very noble.

[Table 5]

Such a sad, senseless, and 100% preventable, death. Why do people keep thinking they are somehow above everyone else when they chose to get behind the wheel drunk?

Sometimes I think our legal drinking/driving limit should be 0. Clearly people have a very poor ability of judging their level of sobriety, so we should just make it a completely black and white issue. Driving is dangerous enough on it's own without adding alcohol into the equation (driving in general needs to be made a much tougher privilege in our society, but that's a whole other topic).

[Peanut]

This makes me so angry and sad. Not only drunk behind the wheel (which obviously is bad enough) but doing it while driving a gigantic tank of a vehicle too. Ugh.

[AC]

I know the Lavallee family very well, went to school and was good friends with Jillian's older sister.

Just heart-breaking.

[llwhiteoutll]

Originally Posted by Coys1882

Too bad breathalyzer ignitions weren't standard on all vehicles like seatbelts are now.

So knowing that impairment occurs at different levels in all people, what limit would you assign to the mandatory interlock device?

Or do you just outlaw driving after even one drink? It also fails to address other forms of impairment that are just as bad as alcohol.

[RedHot25]

Very sad.

Two tremendous families though. Wow: http://calgaryherald.com/news/local-...drivers-family

As Lavallee’s family and friends remember the smiley young woman, who had an infectious laugh and loved helping people, they’re raising funds for Kharbanda’s wife and two young daughters.

“Those girls don’t get 25 years with their dad. We just want to support them and love on them and raise awareness,” said Lavallee’s sister Caitlin.

Caitlin said her younger sister was always the first to help when a friend was hurting or feeling pain, and supporting another family affected by the fatal crash is exactly what her sister would have done.


“It reflects so much of who Jillian was,” Caitlin said.


“We didn’t think twice. Helping them is all we want to do. My poor mom just wants to go and hug his wife, and children.”

Kharbanda’s devastated wife Harbreet said her husband always had a smile on his face and loved to make people laugh. He was a hard-working man and loving father who doted on his daughters, age eight and 14.


“I was the luckiest woman on earth to have him as a husband but now I’m the unluckiest person on earth,” she said Monday.


That the other family devastated by the tragic crash is raising funds to support her own family through their grief is overwhelming, said Harbreet.


“I’m really, really, really thankful to them … They’ve lost their daughter, but they want to support my daughters,” she said.

[corporatejay]

Originally Posted by llwhiteoutll

So knowing that impairment occurs at different levels in all people, what limit would you assign to the mandatory interlock device?

Or do you just outlaw driving after even one drink? It also fails to address other forms of impairment that are just as bad as alcohol.

The legal limit?

[Senator Clay Davis]

Too bad we can't see 5 year mandatory minimums for DUI convictions and automatic life sentences for DUI causing death. It is senseless, and it's beyond idiotic, but I gotta believe if the consequences were severe it would curb it a lot. Consequences are now worse for having weed or seeing an escort than most times a drunk driver kills someone.

[Reaper]

I agree that sentences need to be tougher for DUI. I'd like to see the following structure:

First Offence: mandatory 5 year prison term plus 5 year driving ban post release.
Second Offense: mandatory 8 year prison term plus 10 year driving ban post release.
Third Offense: 12 year prison term plus 20 year diving ban post release.
Fourth Offense: mandatory 25 year prison term plus lifetime driving ban post release.
Fifth Offense: mandatory life in prison term and the status of Dangerous Offender which allows no possibility of parole.

Any offender who is caught operating a motor vehicle during their ban is automatically sent to prison for the remainder of their sentenced driving ban and receives a lifetime driving ban. Think of it as a type of parole violation.

DUI Causing Death:
First Count (note that two deaths in one accident is two counts): Life in Prison with the possibility of Parole.
Second Count: Life in Prison with Dangerous Offender Status.

[billybob123]

I'd go a step further and make a lifetime driving ban after first conviction. Following the jail time. There is absolutely no reason anyone should be driving intoxicated. Another two people's lives wasted. Two families destroyed because of one ignorant arsehole and his idiotic decision to drive drunk.

When is this going to stop?

[billybob123]

And the suspect is 20 years old. There is no 20 year old who doesn't understand the consequences that can arise from driving drunk. Yet he does it anyway.

What a waste.

[Reaper]

Originally Posted by billybob123

And the suspect is 20 years old. There is no 20 year old who doesn't understand the consequences that can arise from driving drunk. Yet he does it anyway.

What a waste.

20 Years old and driving an Escalade? Sounds like he thought "I'll never go to prison. I'm rich."

Show him otherwise. There are no mitigating circumstances. He killed two people and robbed children of their parent.

[REDVAN]

We should focus on stopping drunk driving the only feasible way- since we are never going to eliminate drinking and driving the act- we must punish it more severely.

Loss of licence for first time caught, no ifs, ands or buts.

Jail time for property damage if driving drunk.

And life in prison if you cause an accident causing injury or death.

This type of incident should never occur.

[Street Pharmacist]

Originally Posted by REDVAN

We should focus on stopping drunk driving the only feasible way- since we are never going to eliminate drinking and driving the act- we must punish it more severely.

Loss of licence for first time caught, no ifs, ands or buts.

Jail time for property damage if driving drunk.

And life in prison if you cause an accident causing injury or death.

This type of incident should never occur.

That will not change things that much other than jail a lot of people. Severe punishments just don't change peoples behaviour.

Honestly, self drive cars can't come fast enough