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Canadian driver jailed for deaths caused by stopping for ducks

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A Canadian woman was sentenced to 90 days in jail on Thursday for

causing two deaths in 2010 when she stopped her car on a Quebec

highway to help a group of ducklings crossing the road.

Emma Czornobaj had been convicted in June of two counts each of

criminal negligence and dangerous driving causing death.

According to media reports on Thursday, Czornobaj stopped her car

abruptly in the passing lane of a highway south of Montreal when she

saw the ducklings. The motorcycle behind Czornobaj's car then crashed

into her vehicle, killing the 50-year-old man driving the motorcycle

and his 16-year-old daughter.

"I just wanted to pick all these ducklings up and put them in my car,"

Czornobaj had testified during her trial. "I know it was a mistake."

The jail time will be served on the weekends. Czornobaj was also

sentenced to 240 hours of community service, probation and banned from

driving for 10 years.

Prosecutors had sought a nine-month jail sentence.

Credit: Reuters

Kofi Oppong Kyekyeku

I am a Ghanaian Broadcast Journalist/Writer who has an interest in General News, Sports, Entertainment, Health, Lifestyle and many more.

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