BC dad sentenced for killing 7-year-old son in car crash while driving high on meth

A 49-year-old B.C. man has been sentenced to six years in jail and banned from driving for 35 years for crashing his car while driving high on methamphetamine in 2021, killing his seven-year-old son and injuring other members of his family. According to a ruling by provincial court judge , Matthew Darlington ingested methamphetamine at about 7 p.m. on Sept. 6 while returning to Vancouver Island on the ferry from Vancouver. He also smoked cannabis after arriving on Vancouver Island at about 11 p.m. Just before 2 a.m, the car Darlington was driving left the highway near Sooke and crashed into a tree. His wife was in the passenger seat and their three children, ages seven, eight and 10 were in the rear seat. The court ruling said all of the occupants were injured and the seven-year-old died of his injuries in hospital. As Global's Rumina Daya reports, , the judge concluded jailing Darlington was the only way to keep him off the road. For more info, please go to https://globalnews.ca/news/10860854/bc-dad-sentenced-driving-high-meth-killing-son Subscribe to Global News Channel HERE: http://bit.ly/20fcXDc Like Global News on Facebook HERE: http://bit.ly/255GMJQ Follow Global News on X HERE: http://bit.ly/1Toz8mt Follow Global News on Instagram HERE: https://bit.ly/2QZaZIB #GlobalNews #bc #crime #impaireddriving