A judge has jailed an elderly drunk driver for four years

Linda Cowles, left, and Melanie Cole, daughters of car crash victim Laura Dupuis, 82, stand outside Ontario Superior Court on University Ave. on April 7, 2011.

A judge has jailed an elderly drunk driver for four years, finding he had more than three times the legal limit of alcohol in his blood when he crashed head-on into a TTC bus, killing his two elderly female passengers.

Eric Kannstadter, 73, who uses a walker and appears frail, stood with difficulty and showed no emotion as Ontario Superior Justice David Aston also banned him from driving for life.

Despite it being only 10:10 a.m. on Oct. 19, 2007, Kannstadter had at least 282 milligrams of alcohol per 100 mL of blood when he veered his 2000 Hyundai Elantra into oncoming traffic and hit the bus on Bergamot Ave., near Islington Ave. and Rexdale Blvd.

His passengers, Laura Dupuis, 82, and her friend Eileen Broadhurst, 81, died later in hospital.

 source:http://www.thestar.com/news/crime/article/970957--elderly-drunk-driver-who-killed-two-passengers-jailed-4-years?bn=1