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Drunk driver ordered to pay $105K for damage caused after crashing into Saskatoon school
The Saskatoon Police Collision Analyst Unit and workers on the scene of Silverspring School on Sunday, April 3, 2016. Earlier in the morning a 25 year driver went over an embankment and collided with the school.
The last thing Jeremy Robinson remembers before he drunkenly crashed into an elementary school in Saskatoon’s Silverspring neighbourhood is drinking with friends at a downtown bar.
His next memory is of waking up in hospital.
According to police investigators, Robinson was driving at least 120 km/h down Garvie Road when, around 2:45 a.m. on April 3, he tried to negotiate the turn at the intersection of Konihowski Road. Hitting the sidewalk, his BMW launched over an embankment, smashing into a corner wall of Silverspring School and landing upside down.
“The car was completely destroyed. He’s lucky he was driving a car that was capable of withstanding that,” Crown prosecutor Paul Goldstein said this week in Saskatoon provincial court.
Nobody was hurt in the crash, “including (Robinson), surprisingly,” Goldstein added.
The Saskatoon police collision analyst unit and workers at Silverspring School on April 3, 2016. Earlier in the morning a 25-year-old driver went over an embankment and collided with the school.
The 25-year-old had a blood-alcohol level of .215, or two and a half times the legal limit, court heard. Robinson pleaded guilty to driving with a blood-alcohol level over .08.
After a sentencing hearing Thursday in Saskatoon provincial court, he was ordered to pay $105,000 in restitution to cover the damage done to the school. The restitution order essentially ensures the school doesn’t have to sue Robinson, Goldstein said.
Robinson also must comply with probation conditions that include abstaining from alcohol and avoiding bars for one year.
Defence lawyer Leslie Sullivan said her client did not have a prior criminal record.
“He’s extremely remorseful. He realizes that when you’ve been consuming alcohol, you unfortunately make truly bad decisions, like this one,” she said.
Goldstein called the current climate of drinking and driving in Saskatchewan “frightening.” He said out of the 21 people he dealt with in docket court on Thursday, 13 were drunk driving cases.
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