Man Who Drove on Wrong Side of Highway, Crashed Head-on, Sentenced on Vancouver Island
The judge cited alcohol impairment and a head-on crash that left the other driver with a broken wrist and knee injury.
- On Thursday, B.C. Provincial Court Justice Brenda Brown sentenced Maverick John Millen to a 90-day intermittent jail term, which he must serve on weekends at the Nanaimo Correctional Centre starting Friday.
- Following his return from Australia, where motorists drive on the opposite side of the road, Millen drove the wrong way on Island Highway near the Fredheim Road turnoff in Nanoose Bay on January 11, 2019.
- A jury convicted Millen of impaired and dangerous operation of a vehicle causing bodily harm; the collision left the other driver with a broken wrist and injured knee. Millen also received a one-year driving ban.
- Defence counsel Garen Arnet-Zargarian noted Millen is now a helicopter mechanic in Parksville and father of two who will reach seven years of sobriety in August. Millen apologized to the victim, calling the incident his "lowest point."
- Crown counsel Nick Barber and Arnet-Zargarian made a joint submission for the sentence after a seven-year legal process. Barber emphasized it was only through "luck that no one died" during the 2019 crash.
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Man who drove on wrong side of highway, crashing head-on, sentenced in Nanaimo
A man who severely injured another while driving after consuming alcohol, on the wrong side of Island Highway, will serve time in jail on the weekends at Nanaimo Correctional Centre. In December, a jury found Maverick John Millen, 32, guilty of impaired operation of a vehicle causing bodily harm and dangerous operation of a vehicle causing bodily harm in a Jan. 11, 2019 incident near the Fredheim Road turnoff at Nanoose Bay. He was sentenced to …
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