Man Who Drove on Wrong Side of Highway, Crashed Head-on, Sentenced on Vancouver Island
The judge cited alcohol impairment and a head-on crash that left the other driver with a broken wrist and knee injury.
- On Thursday, B.C. Provincial Court Justice Brenda Brown sentenced Maverick John Millen to a 90-day intermittent jail term at the Nanaimo Correctional Centre, with his sentence beginning Friday.
- Following his return from Australia, Millen drove the wrong way on Island Highway near the Fredheim Road turnoff in Nanoose Bay on January 11, 2019, where motorists drive on the opposite side.
- A jury convicted Millen of impaired and dangerous operation of a vehicle causing bodily harm, with the collision leaving the other driver with a broken wrist and injured knee; he also faces a one-year driving ban.
- Defence counsel Garen Arnet-Zargarian noted Millen is now a helicopter mechanic in Parksville and father of two, reaching seven years of sobriety in August while expressing regret to the victim.
- Crown counsel Nick Barber and Arnet-Zargarian made a joint submission, with Barber noting it took seven years to conclude the case and that it was only through "luck that no one died.
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Sooke News MirrorMan who drove on wrong side of highway, crashed head-on, sentenced on Vancouver Island
A man who severely injured another while driving after consuming alcohol, on the wrong side of Island Highway, will serve time in jail on the weekends at Nanaimo Correctional Centre. In December, a jury found Maverick John Millen, 32, guilty of impaired operation of a vehicle causing bodily harm and dangerous operation of a vehicle causing bodily harm in a Jan. 11, 2019 incident near the Fredheim Road turnoff at Nanoose Bay. He was sentenced to …
Man who drove on wrong side of highway, crashing head-on, sentenced in Nanaimo
A man who severely injured another while driving after consuming alcohol, on the wrong side of Island Highway, will serve time in jail on the weekends at Nanaimo Correctional Centre. In December, a jury found Maverick John Millen, 32, guilty of impaired operation of a vehicle causing bodily harm and dangerous operation of a vehicle causing bodily harm in a Jan. 11, 2019 incident near the Fredheim Road turnoff at Nanoose Bay. He was sentenced to …
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