Four years after Marco Corbin was killed while tubing on Osoyoos Lake, the first steps toward a trial are taking place.
Preliminary inquiries will be held on April 21-24 and resume from April 28-30 in relation to the charges placed on Ryan William Symington.
The judge will then decide whether or not to move forward with a trial.
Symington, who was 27 at the time of the alleged incident, was charged with impaired driving causing death, dangerous driving causing death, failure to stop at an accident, care or control of a vessel with over .08 and attempt to obstruct justice in 2014.
18-year-old Corbin was killed on Aug. 16, 2011. He was being towed behind a boat on a tube and was struck by another vessel. He was rushed back to shore where paramedics failed to revive him.
Corbin, grew up in Mission and was vacationing in the South Okanagan with friends at the time of the incident.
A Transport Canada boating safety officer told the Western News at the time of the death that Osoyoos Lake had the lowest compliance rate of drinking alcohol while boating than any Interior lake they visited in 2010.
