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An Ottawa judge whose creative sentence allowed a drunk driver to save his job by serving his jail time on weekends has had her decision overturned by the Ontario Court of Appeal.

The sentence of Ontario Court Justice Ann Alder was not only improper, it was also too short, according to the panel of three appeal court judges. They tripled the length of the sentence for 21-year-old David Clouthier from five months to 15 and ordered him to surrender within three days to begin serving what’s left of his sentence.

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Clouthier caused three crashes in less than 15 minutes and raced through residential neighbourhoods at up to 130 km/h after a night of drinking in June 2013. Clouthier was driving home when he rear-ended one vehicle, backed up and fled from the crash by driving over a median.

He then rear-ended a second vehicle before again fleeing, this time stepping on the gas pedal and hitting speeds of between 100 and 130 km/h before smashing head-on into a third vehicle, leaving a back seat passenger with injuries so severe emergency surgery was required.