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For the first time, we are learning what drunk driver Marco Muzzo recalled happening just before he ran a stop sign and ploughed into a minivan, killing three children and their grandfather.

In a pre-sentence report, Muzzo said he’d been in Miami for his bachelor party with 10 to 12 friends and relatives and on that Saturday night, he’d been up until about 3 a.m. consuming alcohol. He woke the next morning before his alarm and flew home on a private jet. “He reports that he had three or four alcoholic drinks” on the flight but “did not perceive himself as being drunk” when he began driving home to King City after landing.

“The next thing he remembers is the sound of brakes squealing and a single vehicle in front,” according to the report by Dr. Graham Glancy. “He remembers seeing the vehicle at the last second, hitting his brakes and then realizing he had hit the vehicle.”

Muzzo, 29, has pleaded guilty to four counts of impaired driving causing death and two counts of impaired driving causing bodily harm. His sentencing hearing will continue Wednesday with submissions on how much time he should serve in prison.

According to his pre-sentence report, Muzzo became tearful and had trouble speaking when asked about what happened that day.

“He stated, ‘I know what the breathalyzer says and I can’t believe the magnitude,’” Glancy wrote. “He demonstrated remorse for those he has injured. ‘I think about it over and over. Taking four lives... I feel ... f----- up ... maybe there is a better word than f-----? I feel ... troubled. I know how I feel about my family. I put myself in the Neville-Lake family’s shoes. Their family is broken. I think about how their family is ruined.’”

Muzzo said that he would ask the family what he could do. “I would apologize to them, ask for forgiveness, donate my time, write a blog, educate others, devote whatever I could and do whatever I could.”

After completing a college degree in construction engineering, Muzzo went to work six days a week in the billion-dollar construction business founded by his late grandfather.

The psychiatrist’s testing found Muzzo is experiencing mild symptoms of anxiety and moderate depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. His mother, Dawn Muzzo, said her son has become more religious and reads the Bible more often since the collision.

Also filed was Muzzo’s driving record, which included 12 provincial driving offences — 10 of them for speeding. In 2008, he was docked four points for travelling 137 km/h in a 100 km/h zone and lost another three points in 2010 for going 20 km over the highway limit. His last provincial driving offence was for using a handheld device in March 2015.