“What happened here is utterly appalling, all the more so because it was totally avoidable,” judge tells Kyle Rodney O’Callaghan, 33, who pleaded guilty to dangerous driving
A Campbell River man who killed two members of an American family and injured three others in a crash on the Island Highway in September 2019 has been sentenced to four years in prison.
“I accept that by entering this guilty plea you are acknowledging responsibility for the catastrophic damage that you have done. I can tell from looking at you right now that you are remorseful,” B.C. Supreme Court Justice Robin Baird said Tuesday at O’Callaghan’s sentencing hearing. At the same time, a family of Americans were driving in three cars north on the Island Highway on their way to Port Hardy to catch the ferry to Bella Coola.
A collision expert determined that O’Callaghan was travelling between 105 and 118 kilometres per hour on the corner, which has a recommended speed of 60 km/h. The speed limit on that stretch of highway is 80 km/h. Van Valkenburg, who was in the first car with their adult children, described the flashback he has of Charlotte’s violent death.
“The one person who I needed to talk to the most was gone. It was a long and difficult journey to pick up the pieces of my shattered life,” he wrote.
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