SUPREME COURT OF CANADA - "GAS PEDAL GOT STUCK" CONVICTION

Mr. Collin was acquitted of impaired driving and dangerous driving causing bodily harm at trial, but the Crown's appeal was allowed and the Supreme Court of Canada upheld Mr. Collin's conviction:

The “gas pedal got stuck” while he was driving at between 85 and 100 km/h when he entered the curve where the speed limit was 35 km/h. An event that occurs and complicates driving that is already criminal clearly cannot, in the circumstances, negate the significant (or ”beyond de minimis”) contribution of such driving to the bodily harm caused to the victim. R. v. Collin, 2019 QCCA 887; R. v. Collin, 2019 SCC 64.