{"id":15668,"date":"2014-06-18T10:40:35","date_gmt":"2014-06-18T02:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=15668"},"modified":"2014-06-18T10:40:35","modified_gmt":"2014-06-18T02:40:35","slug":"st-thomas-man-gets-five-month-jail-sentence-in-fatal-hit-and-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/06\/18\/st-thomas-man-gets-five-month-jail-sentence-in-fatal-hit-and-run\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Thomas man gets five month jail sentence in fatal hit and run"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_15749\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15749\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/hit-and-run.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15749\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/hit-and-run.jpg\" alt=\"ShutterStock image\" width=\"1000\" height=\"669\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/hit-and-run.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/hit-and-run-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15749\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ShutterStock image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LONDON, Ontario &#8212; A man convicted in a hit-and-run collision that killed a Western University student has been handed a five-month jail sentence.<\/p>\n<p>Darrin Norton, 36, of St. Thomas, was also ordered to complete two years of probation and 100 hours of community service in connection with the death of 22-year-old Joshua Switzer.<\/p>\n<p>Switzer was struck and killed instantly during the early morning hours of May 19, 2012, while jogging home after a night out with friends.<\/p>\n<p>Norton pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of an accident causing death.<\/p>\n<p>The Crown had requested a prison term of two to three years, while defence lawyers had requested probation and a fine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON, Ontario &#8212; A man convicted in a hit-and-run collision that killed a Western University student has been handed a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":15749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[5512,1036,1112],"class_list":["post-15668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","tag-hit-and-run","tag-london","tag-ontario","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}