During his court case, to which he pled not guilty, the main point that could not be proved was whether O’Reilly was actually driving the truck.
Advertisement
The one key witness didn’t see the driver of the truck that hit the Tim Horton’s and called it the mystery driver.
Buffalo Sabres forward Ryan O’Reilly was in court Monday to face the impaired driving charges brought against him past year.
O’Reilly was acquitted Monday of driving while impaired and leaving the scene of an accident in an incident that happened last summer in Ontario. According to CTV, The Crown said there was “no reasonable prospect for conviction”.
O’Reilly was arrested last July after crashing his vintage pickup truck into a Tim Hortons in Lucan, Ontario, a few days after signing a seven-year, $52 million contract to play for the Sabres.
“Somebody drove through the window at Tim Hortons”, Smith told the court Monday morning, according to reporter Sims’ tweet.
She said she can’t be sure who was driving at that moment. When she went back inside to tell a coworker to call 911, the auto was pulling away. Sims reported that Smith had been the prosecution’s sole identification witness.
Advertisement
It’s kind of hard to believe that after a year of this case getting delayed, it hinged on one person’s recollection, no less one who never saw the drivers.
