HALIFAX - A serial drunk driver who plowed into a family's sport utility vehicle and drove off has lost an appeal of his sentence in the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal.
A three-judge panel agreed that the 8 1/2-year sentence handed to Terry Naugle in February 2010 was within the acceptable range for the offence.
The court was asked if the trial judge erred in ordering consecutive sentences for three offences Naugle was convicted of, and whether they should have instead been concurrent.
Naugle has become a notorious figure for a 32-year criminal history that includes 68 convictions, including 22 for impaired driving and 14 for driving while disqualified.
The 53-year-old was arrested in March 2009 after his car slammed into a stalled vehicle parked along an exit ramp off Highway 102 near Enfield.
Julia McMillan and her daughter were waiting in the van while her husband set off on foot to get some gas at a station nearby.
David McMillan was jogging back to the SUV when Naugle rammed into the driver's side of their vehicle and sped off.
No one was injured in the incident.
