Nickelback singer sentenced for impaired driving
George Vancouver, British people Columbia (Reuters) - Chad Kroeger, the jumper cable singer for Canadian rock band Nickelback, was sentenced on Th to a one-year driving forbiddance and fined more than C$600 ($590) for rummy driving.
The Nickelback frontman was stopped by constabulary for speeding in his luxuriousness Lamborghini sports cable car in the George Vancouver suburb of Surrey, British Columbia, in 2006. A breathing spell test constitute he had twice the legal limit of alcoholic drink in his system.
Kroeger, whose legal name is Chadic language Turton, told reporters as he left the courthouse that he does non condone drinking and driving, only "everyone makes mistakes."
His attorney said they would invoke the article of faith, handed shoot down by the guess last month. Kroeger could have been sentenced to gaol, only first-time offenders commonly receive sentences of a oK and a licence suspension system.
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(Coverage Allan Dowd, redaction by Fleece John Tuzo Wilson)
