A sentence of two years' imprisonment wholly suspended, a $5,000 fine, and five-year licence disqualification is within the range of a sound sentencing discretion for dangerous operation of a motor vehicle where the offender had a BAC of .169%, drove erratically over several kilometres on heavily trafficked roads causing injury, and had a prior drink-driving conviction. Self-inflicted financial loss from writing off a vehicle carries little mitigating weight in dangerous driving cases.
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