Crown seeks 12 years in prison for man in fatal drunk driving case
VANCOUVER — A cyclist who fell several hundred metres behind two of his friends on the day they were hit and killed by a drunk driver says the accident scarred him for life.
Stewart Blaser told a B.C. Supreme Court sentencing hearing for Samuel Alec that when he recalls that day, “I want to curl up in a ball and cry.”
The court heard an agreed statement of facts Monday that said Alec, 42, was driving home from a friend’s funeral shortly before noon on Sunday, May 21, 2015, when he crossed the centre line and crashed head on with cyclists Kelly Blunden and Ross Chafe, who died instantly in the collision.
Paul Pierre Jr., a passenger in the vehicle and a man Alec considered to be a brother, was also killed in the collision.