Driver sentenced to 90 days after car crashed into hair salon, killing woman

Kendall Wiebe died from injuries from the collision at the Ultracuts Hair Salon in the 3300 block of Portage Avenue on April 7, 2012 in Winnipeg.

A man who drove his rental car through the window of a hair salon, killing a woman inside, has been sentenced to 90 days in jail and faces an eight-year driving ban.

In April 2012, Adebola Shoyoye mistakenly pressed the accelerator instead of the brake, crashing through the window of Ultra Cuts Salon on Portage Avenue.

Kendall Wiebe, 27, died and another woman in the salon was seriously injured.

"It seems like a slap on the wrist to me,” said Steve Cancilla, Wiebe’s partner.

In the seven years leading up to that crash, Shoyoye was involved in 10 different crashes, and he was found to be at fault in seven of those.

In his ruling, Justice Chris Martin called Shoyoye a very poor driver.

“There was little doubt he would have another accident. The only question was how and when,” said Justice Martin. “He did not grasp, or did not accept, that he was a bad driver, a dangerous driver who needed to stop driving.”

The judge acknowledged that Shoyoye did not deliberately hit the gas instead of the brake and said that was a consideration in the 90-day sentence.

Shoyoye will be able to serve his jail time on weekends.