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The family of a Windsor teen killed on the Herb Gray Parkway earlier this year thinks the trucker who caused her death got off easy.

Nicole Vetor, 19, was just sitting in traffic, her Oldsmobile Bravada the last car in line near the intersection where Cabana Road in Windsor turns into Todd Lane in LaSalle. She was helpless as a transport truck driven by Dinesh Kumar came barrelling around the bend and struck her from behind, sandwiching her car between his trailer and the transport stopped in front of her.

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Kumar, 31, Tuesday pleaded guilty to careless driving. His punishment was a $1,200 fine and a mandatory $300 surcharge the province collects to fund programs that help victims of crime.

The penalty is woefully inadequate, said Vetor’s older sister, Jamie. So is driver training, she said.

“I think the Ministry of Transportation is helping these truck drivers kill our families,” she said.

“They don’t seem to care what these drivers know about these 80,000-pound machines.”