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Jury recommends stiffer penalties impaired drivers Stiffer penalties for impaired impaired driving offences were recommended by a coroner's jury at an inquest into the highway deaths of four Toronto Toronto -youths involved in a head-on" collision. The jury also strongly recommended the legal limit of alcohol content in the blood be reduced and that guard rails be placed on all medians. medians. The inquest was held to determine the cause of death of Brian David MacDonald, 19, of Scarborough and three passengers in his car on July, 21 on Highway 401 near Newtonville. The four youths were killed, after the car Mr. MacDonald was driving left the road, crossed the median and was struck by a tractor- trailer The jury also recommended recommended that investigations be made into mandatory auto inspection reports on vehicle's vehicle's condition and that they be made out wjth a certificate of fitness at the time of resale, and new highways be constructed constructed with wider medians. The recommendations were made in hopes that fatal accidents such as the one, ■concerned can be prevented in the future. The, jury learned that Brian MacDonald had been drinking before he started driving from a cottage to Toronto. His licence was under suspension at the time, and tests show his blood had ,07 milligrams of alcohol in it, just under the legal limit of .08. It was estimated by Coroner Coroner D. K- Mosienko that Mr. MacDonald had four beers before driving. Dr. Mosienko used the urine count of .14 milligrams of alcohol to show that just prior to Mr. MacDonald's MacDonald's death there were .11 miligrams in his blood. The car that the youth was driving was mechanically unfit to be on the roads, according to testimony of several witnesses. Eric Kruger, Kruger, an engineer with the UP & DOWN THE BOOKSTACKS Thursday, Oct. 28,1976 - ADULT Passages by Gail Sheehy (predictable crisis in adult life) Raising the Only Child by Murray Kappelman Decline of Honor by Avri El-Ad (an Israeli spy whose sabotage brought down the Ben-Gurion government) Foliage House Plants by J. Crockett (everything you _ want to know about house plants, well illustrated) . Hawthorn Hill by Doris Shannon Shannon (historical fiction) The Canfield Decision by Spiro Agnew The House is Dark by Rebecca James (gothic novel) Lady Oracle by Margaret Atwood JUNIOR - Norway in Pictures by John ' Burks Prints and Patterns edited by Jennifer Vaughan (craft book) Phil Esposito by Bill Libby (hockey's greatest scorer) Pirate Island Adventure by Peggy Parish EASY READING AND PICTURE BOORS Pooh's Alphabet Book by A. A. Milne The Ghost of Crumbling 'Castle by Jane McMichaels Little Red Riding Hood by M. Walts , Felipe the Bull.Fighter by Robert Vavra _ Madeleine Hadlly National Education Week on Smoking (NEWonS.) will be observed across Canada from January 9th to 15th ; i lO. Chatterton Electrical Contracting Phone 983-5546 or 983-5940 Orono, Ontario under the auspices of the Canadian Council on Smearing ' and Health. ,The provincial co-ordinating co-ordinating committee for NEWonS has requested that local ■Interagencies on Smoking and Health be formed. A meeting was held yesterday yesterday in the new office of the Durham Region Lung Association Association at the Oshawa General Hospital with Mrs. Joan Liddiard, Cancer Society; Mrs. Mary Wylie, Heart Foundation; Mrs. Gloria Tuck, Registered Nurses Association; Association; and Mrs! Madeline Collins, Lung Association, to discuss future plans. A second meeting is planned planned for Monday evening, November 18th to which representatives of organizations organizations interested in health are to be invited. Anyone interested in assisting assisting on an Interagency Council please call 723-3151 for further information. Centre of Forensic Science in Toronto, said that all four tires were bald and two were underinflated. The""brake system system was also unsound and the lights did not work. The car has been safety checked when Mr. MacDonald MacDonald bought it but since then he had driven it almost 24,000 miles in seven months with little regard to maintenance, the jury was told The car has been safety checked when Mr. MacDonald MacDonald bought it but since then he had driven it almost 24,000 miles in seven months with little regard to maintenance, the jury was told. Assistant Crown Attorney Alex Sosna said it appeared that a puncture to a rear tire caused Mr. MacDonald to lose control of the car, which was aggravated by three bald tires on a wet road and the influence of alcohol on the driver. The car crossed the median, median, spun onto the other lanes of traffic and was hit by a truck which was unable to stop in time. The truck mounted the rear of the MacDionald car, pushing the back end frontwards. The three other youths killed in the accident were Stewart Fraser, Russel Dunlop, Dunlop, and Steven McCann. All were 16 years old. Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, October 27th, 1976--9 O. P. P. News During the week from 19 Oct. to 24 Oct. 76 the Ontario Provincial Police at Newcastle Newcastle investigated 15 motor vehicle collisions and over 100 general occurrences. The 15 motor vehicle collisions collisions resulted in the injury of 5 persons and investigations into, the causes have resulted in 11 charges being laid for offences against the Highway Traffic Act. The general occurrences included • investigations into theft, break and enters, fraud and complaints of wilful damage. 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