Charges laid in crash that killed former UW board chair

CTV Barrie: Charges laid Charges have been laid in a crash where a driver was killed by a flying wheel on Highway 400. Mike Walker reports.

A truck driver and his employer have been charged in connection with a crash that killed a former Waterloo Region business leader.

Paul Koenderman died in January when his vehicle was hit by a wheel that had come off a tractor-trailer on Highway 400.

Koenderman, 69, was a former CEO of the Aecon Industrial Group, chair of the University of Waterloo’s board of governors, and board member with Cambridge and North Dumfries Hydro.

Police announced Thursday that the driver of the truck, a 30-year-old man from Quebec, has been charged with criminal negligence causing death.

The company he was working for, Transport Leo Labelle Inc., is charged with wheel separation on a commercial vehicle under the Highway Traffic Act.

With files from CTV Barrie