The driver H.J., who was treated for minor injuries was charged with impaired driving causing death. Karim Jaffer was killed, when his brother in - law, I.G., failed to make a turn causing their car to strike a tree. I.G., who was drinking, was charged with impaired driving causing death, and dangerous driving causing death. Two Brampton men were charged with impaired driving causing death in a fatal car accident in Mississauga. The victim, Claudine Rodrigues, was ejected from her car as a result of not wearing her seatbelt and later died in hospital.
Most people envision a drunk driver as heartless and uncaring.
Late one night last September, a police officer saw me run two red lights. She pulled me over to the side of a busy street and arrested me for driving while intoxicated. I had never been arrested before. I had never seen the inside of a lockup or been fingerprinted. I felt degraded and humiliated.