On March 30, 2008, a drunk driver ran a stop sign and smashed into a car carrying then-nine-year-old Arshdeep Singh Sidhu.
A judge has issued a $15-million settlement to a 24-year-old Abbotsford man for catastrophic injuries he suffered in a car accident caused by a drunk driver on March 30, 2008, at the age of nine.
Sidhu had been a passenger as his parents drove through an intersection when drunk driver Jan Abram Hiebert ran a stop sign, crashing into the family. Hiebert’s blood alcohol level was three times the legal limit, according to court documents. Sidhu brought a claim against Nissan, which reached a settlement with Sidhu prior to Justice Carla Forth’s May 12 ruling. Sidhu, represented by Michael Slater K.C. and Sam Jaworski of Slater Vecchio LLP, claimed Nissan failed to include rear seat belt pretensioners and knew or ought to have known seatbelts would be misused by children. The settlement was not made public by the judge.
Sidhu started CSIL when he turned 19; initially, he received funding based on 420 hours per month, which was the Ministry of Health guideline in place at the time. His family advocated to get 611 hours per month, which still did not cover the time spent by Sidhu’s father caring for his son.
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