A former volunteer firefighter convicted of the 2023 hit-and-run death of an 84-year-old cyclist has been sentenced to 11 months behind bars.

Nestor Chemerika was about 250 metres from his Niagara-on-Lake home when he was struck by a pickup truck driven by Richard Moore in 2023.

The 39-year-old Niagara Falls man, who spent a decade as a volunteer with the Niagara-on-the-Lake Fire Department, did not render aid to the critically injured cyclist.

He drove away.

“Stopping to provide assistance is a basic expression of human decency and a reflection of the dignity and value of all human life,” Judge Michael Bordin said in a Superior Court of Justice in St. Catharines on Wednesday.

“Failing to do so is reprehensible and an egregious abuse of the trust given to all drivers who are permitted

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