Drunk driver sentenced to six years for fatal crash
Posted March 5, 2011 8:38 am.
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A Crown attorney in Halifax says the public is “sick and tired” of having to deal with repeat drunk drivers like Leonard Warren Morash.
The 49-year-old from West Dover has been sentenced to six years in prison for causing a head-on collision in 2007 that killed a passenger in his car and injured two people in the other vehicle.
Morash pleaded guilty last November to impaired driving causing the death of his friend, Barry Morash, also of West Dover.
He also accepted responsibility for two counts of impaired driving causing bodily harm to Mabel and Steven Francis.
Morash had four previous convictions for drunk driving, and he had three times the legal limit of alcohol in his system at the time of the crash on Highway 333 in West Dover.
Crown attorney Susan MacKay says courts across the country are getting tougher on drunk driving in response to public outrage over this type of crime.
