York Regional Police report ‘disappointing’ impaired driving arrests on long weekend

Yorkregion.com
March 29, 2016
By Lisa Queen

As convicted drunk driver Marco Muzzo awaited his sentencing Tuesday in the tragic collision in Vaughan last September that killed three young children and their grandfather, York Regional Police reported a “disappointing” long weekend of impaired driving on our roads.

Thirteen drivers were arrested and charged with alcohol and drug-related criminal offences between March 24 at 11 p.m. and March 28 at 1:40 a.m.

“Despite the significant tragedies we have experienced on York Region roads and ongoing police efforts to stop drivers from drinking or using drugs and driving, motorists are continuing to put their lives and the lives of innocent people at risk by driving while impaired,” police said in a statement.

Four of the 13 arrests over the long weekend came as a result of collisions.

Six drivers were charged after being pulled over at RIDE spot checks and another three were charged after concerned residents called 911.

“Impaired driving is the No. 1 criminal cause of death in Canada,” police said.

“When you drink or use drugs and drive you not only risk your life and those of your passengers, but the lives of every other driver and pedestrian on the road.”

Muzzo was sentenced to 10 years in prison and a 12-year driving ban in Newmarket court Tuesday morning.

He pleaded guilty to impaired driving causing death in the Sept. 27 collision that killed the Neville-Lake children, nine-year-old Daniel, Harrison, 5, and Milly 2, and their grandfather, Gary Neville, 65.

Court heard Muzzo got into his Jeep Cherokee to drive to his home in King after returning on a private jet from his bachelor party in Miami.