B.C.’s attorney general to look at case of driver in fatal crash escaping criminal charges
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While B.C. Prosecution is an independent body, B.C.'s attorney general has promised to look into the case.
The parents of a young Kelowna man are expressing anger at a recent decision not to pursue criminal charges related to a crash that left their son and another young man with life-altering injuries and a third dead.
“I have no words, it’s disgusting,” said Kelley Waterhouse.
Owen Waterhouse, 21, suffered a severe brain injury when his Volkswagen Jetta was slammed into from behind in Kamloops on Nov. 29, 2023.
“His truck landed on top of my son’s car,” Kelley Waterhouse said. “They are going to give someone a ticket after he destroyed three lives.”
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One of them, Owyn McInnis, was killed while Riley Brinnen suffered an incomplete spinal cord injury.
He spent six long months in hospital, during which his parents were told he may not make it.
“He has had to learn how to walk again, how to talk again, he’s had to learn how to everything again, I can hold up an apple sometimes and he won’t know it is an apple,” Kelley Waterhouse said.
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