Sukvinder Trial Day 3

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The truck that crashed into the Skyway Bridge didn’t set off any of the height sensors along the QEW because the bin wasn’t raised until after the truck was already on the incline about 1 kilometer from the crash site, This according to the OPP.

A dash cam video was used to replicate the drive that 37 year old Sukvinder Singh Rai of Brampton took on the afternoon of July 31st 2014, just before his truck crashed into the Skyway Bridge.

The video was part of the Collision Reconstruction report filed by Constable Steven Anderson of the OPP. In the report, Mr. Anderson details a trip that started at Triple M Metals in Hamilton, about a 5 minute drive from the Skyway.

It has previously been noted that there are two sensors located 2 and 4 kilometers from the bridge meant to sound off if an approaching vehicle is anything above 4.08 meters will set off an alarm which can be heard loudly on the road. But a photograph from the MTO camera reveal that as the truck passed the final sensor, the bin remained in the down position, at a hight of 3.99 meters.

The report says that the truck was travelling between 84 and 93 kilometers per hour, and that it would take the truck approximately 40 seconds to raise the bin, enough to have it at the height of over 6 meters at the moment of impact. Witnesses have previously testified that they saw the bin raising as the vehicle approached the top of the bridge.

Rai is facing 4 charges in relation to the crash. They are impaired driving, impaired driving with a blood alcohol level over 80, dangerous driving, and mischief endangering life.

The report also detailed how the raise, lower function of the truck was working correctly before the crash, so the conclusion is that someone had to raise the bin from within the cab and it’s a process that involves two separate switches.

The trial continues Monday.