Maximum Sentence
10 years (base) / 14 years (bodily harm) / life (death)
Classification: Hybrid
🍁 Immigration Impact
Hybrid offence. Flight from police carries a 10-year maximum, constituting serious criminality under IRPA s.36(1).
🍁 In Simple Terms
Not pulling over when police signal, and driving off instead. The plain version tops out at 10 years, an injury pushes it to 14, and a death to life. Ten years is exactly where Canadian immigration law starts calling a record serious criminality, so this one clears the line on its own.
Legal Text, Criminal Code s. 320.17
Everyone commits an offence who operates a motor vehicle or vessel while being pursued by a peace officer and who fails, without reasonable excuse, to stop the motor vehicle or vessel as soon as is reasonable in the circumstances.
Amendment History (1)
2018, c. 21, s. 15
Related Sections
Official Source: Justice Canada: Criminal Code s. 320.17 (authoritative, may differ from this display)
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