WINDSOR, Ont. – An Amherstburg, Ont., man has been found not guilty of impaired driving causing death in a snowmobile crash that claimed the life of his friend.
But in handing down the verdict, the judge found 23-year-old Trevor Skeates guilty of driving over the legal limit of blood-alcohol.
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Skeates borrowed a snowmobile to go for a ride on a foggy night in January 2010, and 19-year-old Corey Meloche hopped on.
Ten minutes later, the snowmobile had flipped into a ditch pinning Meloche, and she died later in hospital.
Skeates – who admitted during the trial that he had five beers – is to be sentenced on April 16.
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