A Quebec coroner says if the province’s penalties for drunk driving were in line with those in the rest of the country, a driver who slammed into a motorcyclist in 2020 would not have been on the road when the fatal accident occurred.
Coroner Geneviève Thériault says the man who was behind the wheel had been pulled over by Quebec provincial police for driving erratically less than an hour before the head-on collision on June 4, 2020.
Officers had him blow into a breathalyzer, which found the level of alcohol in his blood was between 50 and 99 milligrams of alcohol per 100 millimetres of blood, but it could not confirm whether he was above the Criminal Code’s legal limit of 80 mg per 100 ml of blood….