Laurent Isadore (Left) Tyler Duboski (Right)
RCMP have filed charges against a man accused of driving an uninsured semi, while in possession of meth when the crash occurred between a convoy of charity motorcycle riders last summer on August 31.
Laurent Isadore, 38 from Driftpile First Nation, and 33-year-old Tyler Duboski were both killed when the semi-tractor trailer crossed the centre line on Highway 2 near Sucker Creek First Nation while raising awareness and money to help people experiencing homelessness on Treaty 8 Territory in the Red Road to Healing Bike Run.
Authorities announced that on Thursday that 26 charges have been laid on Michael Maurice Koochin, 38 of Slave Lake, and was arrested in relation to the fatal motor vehicle collision.
Koochin was charged with:
- Two counts of criminal negligence causing death (without firearm).
- Two counts of dangerous operation of a motor vehicle causing death.
- Six counts of criminal negligence causing bodily harm.
- Six counts of dangerous operation of a motor vehicle collision causing bodily harm.
- Possession of methamphetamine.
Several more charges were laid in relation to being a commercial truck driver:
- Driver operating a motor vehicle that was not insured.
- Driver operating a commercial vehicle not complying with standards as specified in Section 16(2)(A) Schedule 2 of the commercial Vehicle Safety Regulation: Vehicle not equipped with a break system acting on all wheels.
- Driver failing to prepare a trip inspection report in a legible format.
- Driver failing to maintain an accurate daily log in duplicate.
- Driver operating a commercial vehicle not complying with standards as specified in Section 10(N)(II) Schedule 2 of the Commercial Vehicle Safety Regulation.
- Driver operating a commercial vehicle not complying with standards as specified in Section 14(A)(III) Schedule 2 of the Commercial Vehicle Safety Regulation.
- Driver operating a commercial vehicle not inspected under daily trip inspection requirements and with a major defect.
- Driver failing to operate a commercial vehicle as specified.
- Driver operating a motor vehicle not complying with standards as specified in Section 12(a) Schedule 2 of the Commercial Vehicle Safety Regulation.
Police said the semi was independently owned and no further charges are anticipated.
RCMP said Koochin was brought before a justice of the peace and remains in custody. He had a court date Thursday at the courthouse in Wabasca Desmarais.
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