Hill Sentenced

Thursday, January 19, 2006 04:50 PM

66 Year old Ronald Keith Hill has been sentenced to a conditional sentence of 2 years less a day for the two counts of dangerous driving causing death and 6 months conditional sentence for the count of dangerous driving causing bodily harm plus a year of probation in the deadly driving accident that claimed the lives of a Prince George couple.

Kimberley St. Peter and her husband Kevin died when their Cavalier was hit by a truck driven by Ronald Keith Hill, and as a result was pushed into the path of on coming traffic. The driver of the vehicle in that on coming lane suffered serious injuries.

In handing down sentence, Judge Dan Weatherly noted Mr. Hill is regarded as a mentor to many, a gentle man, and by all accounts the events of that tragic day were totally out of character. Judge Weatherly says the perameters for a conditional sentence apply because Mr. Hill is not likely to reoffend, and is deeply and genuinely remorseful. "Often the families of the victims hope the Court can somehow take away their pain, the Court cannot do that." said Judge Weatherly, as he outlined the case law which supported his choice of sentence.

Mr. Hill faces a curfew from 9 at night to 7 a.m. except Thursday and Friday when he works until 9p.m. He is not allowed to drink, and his drivers licence has been revoked for 5 years. He must complete 100 hours of community service by December 31st of this year, and another 100 hours of community service by August of next year.

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Posted on Thursday, January 19, 2006 04:50 PM in News by Elaine Macdonald

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Comments

Posted by: Gofaster on January 19 2006 7:21 PM

So basically the judge waggled this finger at im and sent him home.....way to go...I thought more of the system until now

Posted by: camoose on January 19 2006 11:22 PM

This leaves me speechless except for two words.......Bull ***

Posted by: diplomat on January 20 2006 3:28 PM

Many accidents are preventable by having better highways, and this may not have happened at all had there been a 4 lane highway with a properly lit left turn lane.

Many country roads should only cross over the main highway via an overpass and allow exit from and entry to the highway by staying in the right hand lane altogether.

This accident had other contributing factors, but there is an urgent need to bring our highway system up to better safety standards.

Foothills Avenue for instance has no guard rail of any sort on the valley drop-off side when driving down from Heather Road in the direction of Nechako Road.

The slightest slip on ice or snow will lead to a potentially fatal head first ride down a 150 to 200 foot embankment.

It happened a couple of years ago to a RCMP cruiser and the officer was lucky enough to be only badly shaken up and not injured.

Often improvements are only made AFTER someone has been killed.

Sad, indeed.