Trial ends, verdict pending for man accused in fatal Cedar crash
NANAIMO — The fate of a Nanaimo man accused in a fatal hit-and-run in Cedar is now in the hands of a judge.
The Honourable Justice Robin Baird announced Friday afternoon he’d have a decision in the BC Supreme Court trial of Dustin Dennis Zinter on Monday, July 23 at 10 a.m. Zinter is on trial after pleading not guilty to three charges stemming from a head-on crash on Yellow Point Rd. which killed 51-year-old Ladysmith woman Heidi Barbara Plato the night of Nov. 10, 2015.
During final submissions, Crown prosecutor Nick Barber focused on an RCMP collision reconstruction report, which theorized Zinter’s large Dodge truck crossed the centre line and hit Plato’s smaller Toyota pickup.
“There is no debris in Mr. Zinter’s lane, there’s nothing in his lane, even his vehicle is in Ms. Plato’s lane and her vehicle is well off the side of the road in her lane,” Barber told court.