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FIRST READING: Indian trucker given $2,000 fine for fiery crash that killed two

The latest in a string of lenient sentences given to truckers who have killed Canadians through basic inattention

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FIRST READING: Indian trucker given $2,000 fine for fiery crash that killed two Back to video

For causing a fiery crash just north of Kamloops, B.C., that killed two people, a non-citizen trucker will be required to pay $2,000 and undergo 18 months of probation.

And the B.C. case is just the latest in a string of recent Canadian court decisions where a trucker was handed a controversially lenient sentence for causing a fatal crash, often due to inattention.

In January, trucker Lovepreet Singh was sentenced to nine months in jail for driving his truck at full speed into a Toyota Corolla slowing for a construction zone. A brother and sister trapped inside the burning car were killed.

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Earlier this month, Ontario trucker Sukhwinder Sidhu was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in jail for a similar collision in which he plowed his rig into cars stopped at a construction site, killing former Canadian ice dancer Alexandra Paul.

Just two weeks ago, a Thunder Bay, Ont., judge granted an absolute discharge to........

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