A Milton, Ont. truck driver has been fined $2,500 after a near-crash with another transport truck that gained national attention this winter.
Akmal Hayat, 31, pleaded guilty to careless driving earlier this week.
The January incident was captured by the other driver's dashboard camera and quickly spread through social media. The video has received more than 2.5 million views since then.
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Art Ginter tells story behind viral truck 'accident' video
The video showed Hayat's truck attempting to pass a snowplow on a snow-covered Highway 11, almost colliding head-on with the other vehicle.
Two other highway traffic act charges against Hayat — failure to remain, and failure to report an accident — were withdrawn.
Provincial police tracked down Hayat after the video incident was widely distributed on social media.
The video was recorded by a dashboard camera in the northbound truck. It showed the northbound driver being forced to steer his vehicle into guardrails alongside Highway 11 to avoid a head-on collision with the oncoming tractor-trailer that was in the process of passing a snowplow. The driver of the oncoming transport truck continued south on Highway 11.
After examining and enhancing the video, OPP said they were able to identify the vehicle involved in the incident.
"I'm glad they have been able to identify the driver. Again, I did not do this to throw the driver under the bus, but I just wanted him identified for my insurance company," said Art Ginter, the driver whose dashboard camera captured the event, in a previous interview with CBC News.
In an earlier news release, Nipigon OPP detachment commander Staff Sgt. Randy Bye said, "it was obvious from the video ... that this incident could have easily resulted in much more tragic circumstances."
Bye said the investigation was a lengthy one, and involved 40 to 50 hours of work by members of three different platoons. He told CBC News that officers put in "a lot of legwork digging through company files and information ... there was a lot of time and effort."
