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Bennett-Awad injured after being thrown from horse MONIQUE TAMMINGA Times Reporter
Langley Olympic equestrian rider Hawley Bennett-Awad is recovering in a London hospital after being thrown from her horse, Gin & Juice, at the cross country event on Monday. The Murrayville native was taken to Royal London Hospital, where she was being treated for a concussion “which is improving significantly,”and a stable sacral fracture, according to a release from the Canadian Olympic Committee. It’s reported that her horse wasn’t injured in the fall. Bennett-Awad’s husband had posted on her Facebook page that she was OK and asking about her horse. He also posted a picture of her in her hospital bed, giving a thumbs up. The fall means 35-year-old Bennett-Awad’s has been eliminated from competition and that her Olympic dreams for London are over. She was the top Canadian — sitting 31st overall — heading into Monday’s event. Bennett-Awad was the second rider to get hurt on Monday morning. Another Canadian, Peter Barry, crashed on the course, but wasn’t injured. The course, situated at London’s Greenwich Park, is reported to have razor-sharp turns, blind two-metre drops and tricky jumps. Bennett-Awad was a member of Canada’s team that won silver at the 2010 World Equestrian Games.
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A future Olympian, perhaps? Seven-year-old Mia Moore swims towards her dad at the Fort Langley outdoor pool which was packed with children cooling down during Sunday’s warm sunshine.
Two years for fatal crash driver Mission resident, 17, died in 2007 crash along 0 Ave. MONIQUE TAMMINGA Times Reporter
A driver who killed one of his young passengers and injured three others in a horrific crash in 2007 on 0 Avenue in Langley was sentenced to two years in jail on Thursday. Antonio Santini, 32, was also sentenced to 18 months probation and faces a five year driving ban after he gets out of jail. He has to pay a victim surcharge and was ordered to provide the courts with a DNA sample.
The crash killed 17-year-old Mission resident Renee Newson. In January, Santini, who is from Mission, pleaded guilty to dangerous driving causing death and two charges of dangerous driving causing bodily harm back in in B.C. Supreme Court in New Westminster. At the time of the deadly crash, Santini, then 27, offered to take Newson, who was an acquaintance of his, and her friends out and drive them around. The crash occurred when Santini’s 2002 Chevrolet Cavalier sedan, traveling west bound on 0 Avenue at a high rate of speed, lost control on a speed hump, sending the car airborne, shearing off a utility pole, rolling several times and coming to rest upside-down in the middle of Boundary Road, on the U.S. side of the bor-
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der. Newson was ejected from her vehicle and ended up in a ditch on the U.S. side of the road. It’s believed she was wearing a seatbelt and the impact of the crash also dislodged and ejected the car’s seat. A friend of Newson’s told The Times back in 2007, that her father saw the Cavalier after the crash and said there was nothing left of it. It’s unknown what injuries Santini suffered. Police attributed the accident to excessive speed. The other girls in the car suffered various degrees of non-life-threatening injuries. The court also learned that Santini had been in another collision following this crash. It isn’t known why it took five years for the case to go through the courts.
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