Halifax — The Canadian Press Published on Friday, Feb. 12, 2010 2:55PM EST Last updated on Friday, Feb. 12, 2010 4:31PM EST
A notorious drunk driver in Nova Scotia with dozens of convictions was sentenced Friday to eight and a half years in prison for slamming into a family’s vehicle and fleeing the scene.
Fifty-three-year-old Terry Naugle was also prohibited from driving for life and ordered to submit a DNA sample.
Mr. Naugle has 68 previous criminal convictions, including 22 for impaired driving and 14 for driving while disqualified.
He pleaded guilty in October to charges including impaired driving, leaving the scene of an accident and driving while prohibited.
He plowed into a sport-utility vehicle that was parked along an exit ramp on a highway near Enfield, N.S., after it ran out of gas.
Provincial Court Judge Frank Hoskins said Mr. Naugle appears to have a compulsion to drive while impaired.
“While I understand alcoholism is a terrible disease ... I do not understand the compulsion to drive a motor vehicle while impaired,” Judge Hoskins said.
“Nothing up to this point has deterred him from reoffending.”
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