Artur Kotula, the suspended driver who drove at dangerously high speeds down Toronto’s Parkside Drive three years ago, killing a couple after rear-ending their car, has been found guilty on two counts of dangerous driving causing death and two counts of dangerous driving causing bodily harm.
Superior Court Justice Sukhail Akhtar, who presided over the judge-alone trial last month, rejected Kotula’s testimony that he blacked out at the time of the crash, calling him an “unreliable historian.”
Akhtar said Kotula’s evidence was contradictory and inconsistent and found he was conscious at the time of the collision.
Akhtar accepted the evidence of one witness who testified that Kotula swerved across the centre line into oncoming traffic before correcting himself and continuing in southbound traffic and witnesses who saw him after the crash.
“Although Kotula stated he blacked out, witnesses and video evidence show the opposite. He appeared confused but alert and …