BEDFORD, Pa. - A western Pennsylvania man will spend at least eight years in prison for killing three members of a Pickering, Ont. family while driving drunk last Christmas.
Jeremy Grimes was sentenced to eight to 16 years in prison for the accident that claimed the lives of three members of the St-Denis family - a father and two of his children. The mother and a third child survived.
The 24-year-old Bedford man apologized in court Tuesday for the accident.
Roger Herve St-Denis, 52, Angela Michelle St-Denis, 15, and Paul Francois St-Denis, 21, all of Pickering, Ont., were pronounced dead at the scene of the Dec. 23 head-on crash on Interstate 99, about 65 kilometres west of Pittsburgh.
Grimes' blood-alcohol level was 0.21, more than twice the legal limit.
The St-Denises were on their way to Florida to leave for a cruise when the crash occurred.
With files from The Canadian Press.
