An Eskasoni man has been charged with second-degree murder and multiple other offences after a 24-year-old woman died in a car crash Thursday.
RCMP say officers received a call about an impaired driver on 74th Street just after 1 a.m.
While police were en route to the scene, officers received a report of a single-vehicle crash on Highway 216. The vehicle matched the description of the vehicle in the impaired driving complaint.
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1 dead, 3 injured after single-vehicle crash in Eskasoni: N.S. RCMP
The local fire department, paramedics and the RCMP attended the scene of the crash and found a vehicle in the ditch with a severed utility pole and lines down.
The man who was driving, as well as two passengers, a man and a woman, suffered serious injuries.
All three were transported to hospital.
A 24-year-old woman from Eskasoni was found near the rear of the vehicle. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
Mounties say the driver, MacKenzie Daniel Poulette, 24, remains in custody and faces the following charges:
- Second-degree murder
- Criminal negligence causing death
- Two counts of criminal negligence causing bodily harm
- Impaired operation of a conveyance
- Operation of a conveyance while over .08% blood alcohol causing bodily harm
- Dangerous operation of a vehicle
- Two counts of dangerous operation causing bodily harm
- Dangerous operation causing death
- Failure to comply with release order
- Failure to comply with a release order
RCMP say their investigation is ongoing.