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Motorist Tyson Tyler Giroux was only travelling seven kilometres over the posted speed limit when he killed another motorist in a Deerfoot Trail crash.
Unfortunately for Giroux’s victim, the Red Deer man was driving in the wrong direction on the busy Calgary freeway at the time of the deadly collision, court heard Wednesday.
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Giroux pleaded guilty to a charge of dangerous driving causing death in connection with the Dec. 2, 2022, incident which took the life of Calgarian Imanpal Singh Shergill.
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According to a statement of agreed facts presented by Crown prosecutor Susan Ansari, Shergill was driving southbound on Deerfoot near 32 Avenue N.E. at below the speed limit when Giroux crashed his Ford F150 pickup truck into the victim’s Honda Accord.
“Both vehicles were in the southbound lanes of Deerfoot Trail,” Ansari told Justice Margaret Keelaghan.
“The pickup truck was facing northbound.”
She said Shergill, 27, “was operating his sedan under the maximum speed limit and was driving south in the southbound lanes of Deerfoot Trail.
“The accused drove his pickup truck northbound in the southbound … colliding with the sedan driven by Shergill.”
Ansari said the collision occurred at about 3:14 a.m.
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“At the time of the collision, the pickup truck was travelling at 107 km/h,” she said.
The speed limit on that section of the freeway is 100 km/h.
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When EMS and fire department personnel arrived they found Shergill in the driver’s seat of his car.
“He was unconscious, non-responsive, and pronounced dead at the scene.”
He died as a result of injuries he sustained in the collision, the prosecutor told Keelaghan.
Accused’s blood-alcohol concentration over the legal limit
Both vehicles were roadworthy and neither had any mechanical difficulties affecting their operation, Ansari told the Calgary Court of Justice judge.
“After the accused was arrested and attended hospital, his blood was taken. A toxicologist confirmed that the accused had a blood-alcohol concentration that was over the … legal limit at the time of the collision.”
At the request of defence counsel Matt Deshaye, who was appearing for lead lawyer Greg Dunn, Keelaghan ordered a presentence report by probation as well as a report into Giroux’s Indigenous background.
Deshaye confirmed Giroux was aware that the Crown and defence will be arguing for different sentences and his fate will ultimately lie in the judge’s hands.
He remains at liberty pending sentencing.
A date for the sentencing hearing, which isn’t expected to occur for several months, will be scheduled next week.
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