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An impaired driver who struck and killed two women, maimed a man for life and then fled the scene of the Coquitlam crash has abandoned his appeals of his conviction and sentence.

During a brief appearance in the B.C. Court of Appeal Tuesday, a chambers judge heard that Cory Sater had dropped his appeal in relation to the February 2011 deaths of Charlene Reaveley, a mother of four, and Lorraine Cruz. Sater also withdrew his appeal of his 7 1/2-year sentence.

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Court heard that on the night of the crash, Charlene and Dan Reaveley and their close friends, Kimberley and Giacomo deBenedictis, were on the way home from an evening out when they saw a Nissan Pathfinder spin out and crash on the Lougheed Highway at Pitt River Road.

The Reaveleys and Giacomo deBenedictis ran to help while Kimberley deBenedictis called 911. They helped Lorraine Cruz and her boyfriend, Paulo Calimbahin, out of their damaged vehicle.