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PAGE 4THE CANADIAN STATESMAN, FEBRUARY 20,2002 Off-duty officer guilty of careless driving in death of boy, 5 BY STEPHEN SIIAW Staff Writer A Durham Regional Police Police constable has pleaded guilty lo careless driving following following an off-duly collision that left a five-year-old boy dead. Scott Airey, 26, a patrol officer working out of Os- hawa's 17 Division, entered the plea lo the Highway Traffic Traffic Act offence during an emotional hearing in a Lindsay Lindsay courtroom Friday. Evan Huntington, grandson grandson of former Scugog public school board tmstee Bobbie Drew, was killed Sept. 22, 2001 when the station wagon driven by his aunt, Janice Huntington, 49, of Port Perry, was rear-ended by the officer's Ford pickup truck on Kawartha Lakes Road 57, west of Janctvillc Road. Court heard the station wagon was turning into a driveway driveway when it was stmek from behind by the officer's pickup, which was travelling at a speed of about 100 km/h. The car's turn signal was activated activated and it was at a near stop. Evan, in senior kindergarten kindergarten at Grandview Public School in Bethany, was in a rear-facing seat. Despite wearing his seatbelt, he was thrown from the car. The family was on its way to the Lindsay Fair and was stopping to collect another relative at the time. The other occupants of the station wagon, including Evan's 10- year-old sister, Brittanee, his grandmother Lois Hunting- ton, and a cousin, Jeremy Wilcox, suffered various minor injuries. Under a joint sentence proposal made by the Crown and defence, Const. Airey Would receive a $1,000 fine and one year's probation. The proposed terms of probation include a ban on driving except while working as a police officer, performing performing 50 hours community service, service, attending 25 hours of EVAN HUNTINGTON counselling and participating in a "restorative justice meeting" meeting" with Evan's family members. The exceptions to the driving driving ban also include travelling travelling lo and from work. Justice of the Peace Adclc Romagnoli will hand down sentence April 5. Const. Airey is still on active duly. The morning of the crash Const. Airey finished a 12- hour shift with the RIDE program program at 3 a.m. and went duck hunting in Bridgenorth, north of Peterborough, with a fellow fellow police officer, prosecutor Andrew Fordham said. Const. Airey was headed back to the Oshawa station to begin his next shift at 3 p.m. when the collision occurred at 12:30 p.m., court was told. "Fatigue was a factor," Mr. Fordham said, adding OPP investigators found no skid marks or other signs of braking by the pickup. Const. Airey, a Durham police officer for 18 months, was described as being emotionally emotionally devastated by the collision. He did not address the court during the hearing, attended by Evan's parents and other family members. 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