Jagmeet Grewal, the truck driver who killed four people and injured four others on Aug. 5, 2019, in a massive pileup on Highway 440 in Laval, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.
The defense had hoped for a more lenient sentence for her client, but Judge Yanick Laramée wanted to send a strong message to society in general and truck drivers in particular. She also emphasized the man’s disregard for human life, whose guilt on a charge of criminal negligence was established in February 2024 at the Laval courthouse.
Grewal, now 58, was unfit to drive but had obtained his licence after an administrative error by the SAAQ . He had also falsified documents and lied to his employer to get on the road.
The Ministry of Transport and Sustainable Mobility (MTMD) has since undertaken to redo the interchange of Hwys. 15 and 440, where endless traffic jams tended to form.
Grewal drove into one such traffic jam, without even slowing down, an investigation revealed.
