{"id":9952,"date":"2024-12-12T16:07:35","date_gmt":"2024-12-12T19:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/?p=9952"},"modified":"2024-12-12T16:07:35","modified_gmt":"2024-12-12T19:07:35","slug":"man-charged-with-two-counts-of-impaired-driving-causing-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/2024\/12\/12\/man-charged-with-two-counts-of-impaired-driving-causing-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Charged With Two Counts of Impaired Driving Causing Death."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meteghan RCMP Detachment has charged a man with impaired driving offences, including two counts of Impaired Driving Causing Death, after investigating a fatal collision in Mavillette.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On October&nbsp;6, at approximately&nbsp;6:30&nbsp;p.m., Meteghan RCMP, fire services, and EHS responded to a report of a two-vehicle collision on Hwy.&nbsp;1. Officers learned that a Pontiac G5&nbsp;veered out of its lane and collided with a Hyundai Kona travelling in the opposite direction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the passengers in the Hyundai, a&nbsp;77-year-old Saint Alphonse woman, was pronounced deceased on scene. The driver and another passenger in the Kona were transported to hospital with life-threatening injuries; the passenger later died in hospital. Another passenger suffered serious injuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the time of the collision, the driver of the Pontiac showed signs of impairment by alcohol. He was arrested and transported to a local hospital where blood samples were obtained for analysis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On December&nbsp;9, Meteghan RCMP arrested&nbsp;34-year-old Vincent Alphonse Comeau of Saint Alphonse. He faces the following charges:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Impaired Driving Causing Death (two counts)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dangerous Driving Causing Death (two counts)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Impaired Driving Causing Bodily Harm<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dangerous Driving Causing Bodily Harm<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Impaired Driving over .80<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Impaired Driving<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Comeau was released by the courts on conditions and will appear in Yarmouth Provincial Court on February&nbsp;18.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source : RCMP Release <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meteghan RCMP Detachment has charged a man with impaired driving offences, including two counts of Impaired Driving Causing Death, after<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3282,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10,12,13,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-general","category-latest","category-news","category-top-stories"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9953,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9952\/revisions\/9953"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}