“If someone didn’t have the decency or the ability to make decisions still decide to get behind the wheel, if this vehicle wouldn’t start because of mandatory technology, my son would still be here,” she told CBC News. I’m about to cry - shed a tear.According to Brenda Simmons, one of the worst parts of seeing your family torn apart by a drunk driver is knowing that with political will and the right use of technology, it could have been avoided. On the show, when the host told Schurink looking cool on TV wasn’t going to work out how he had planned, Schurink fired back, “Wow. Schurink didn’t answer whether or not he was speeding Saturday night.ĭaniel Bridgman, a one-time friend who was Schurink’s nominator on the show, told Postmedia Network, “This still won’t stop him from driving.” “I could produce 100 people I know that would support my skill as a driver, as well as countless others who have since driven with me, to see that I am not such a horrible person.” It certainly is not who I am, and is not my driving style. “But I figure that I acted young and dumb and said some dumb stuff and that's how they portrayed me. And it has definitely affected my dealings with the police since the airing of the show.” Schurink said. “I feel my character was really slandered by the way I was represented on the show. Reached Sunday evening, Schurink told Postmedia Network the officer had an axe to grind. This is just a blatant disregard for everyone's safety on the road, including his own," he said. "I'm not sure what makes him feel invincible, but it seems that he hasn't learned a thing," Stacey said.Īnd Stacey called his alleged actions "absolutely reckless." He was also allegedly driving while suspended, so he's lost his car for 30 days too.
What show staff, one of whom is an ex-traffic cop, heard was so disturbing they called Calgary police.Īt the speed he is alleged to have been driving Saturday night, several years later, Schurink now faces an automatic court date. They booted him from the show in the season's second week. "In order to drive when I was off on house arrest I got a friend, memorized his name, his date and all that sort of stuff, and I drove as him for a number of years." "I probably hit this guy's car at like 50 (km/h). "I've been suspended several times and I've never actually stopped driving. "I have driven well over 200 km/h," he said. On the show, which was televised across the country, Schurink said, "I'm a good drunk driver." Manage Print Subscription / Tax ReceiptĬalgary police have known about him since 2010, when he was a contestant on the Canada's Worst Driver TV show.
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