Brett Iler has pleaded not guilty to six charges of careless driving under the Highway Traffic Act in a collision that killed two people and injured three others.
It happened on May 27, 2022, during the RetroFest classic car cruise along Queen’s Line, just outside of Chatham.
Court learned Thursday Iler wasn’t impaired, he wasn’t using his cellphone, the roads were bare and dry and the weather clear. He was driving seven kilometers per hour faster than the posted speed limit of 90 km/h.
“The collision was avoidable,” Accident Reconstructionist Constable Jason Herder told Justice of the Peace Kelly Jackson, inside the Provincial Offences court in Blenheim.
“This incident is the result of multiple motor vehicle collisions occurring within moments of one another,” he said.
Const. Herder testified the 2013 Ford Escape driven by Iler that day was eastbound on Queen’s Line, near Dillon Road, when the vehicle veered 1.02 …