Two arrested following fatal side-by-side vehicle collision
Posted Mar 9, 2025 03:27:51 PM.
Last Updated Mar 10, 2025 10:58:52 AM.
Two men have been arrested for impaired operation causing death after a vehicle rolled over onto an elderly male passenger.
Annapolis District RCMP, Emergency Health Services and firefighters were dispatched to the scene of an off-highway collision on March 8 at approximately 4:40 p.m. Upon arrival at the scene, on Heartland Road in West Dalhousie, responding officers observed two side-by-side vehicles in the ditch, several people gathered, and a man lying on the ground.
Through an investigation officers determined that the two vehicles collided and a male passenger was ejected from the vehicle before it rolled onto him. The 72-year-old from West Dalhousie was pronounced dead at the scene.
The driver of one vehicle, a 53-year-old man of Carleton Corner, suffered minor injuries and was transported to hospital where he was arrested for impaired operation causing death. Upon release from the hospital he was transported to Bridgetown RCMP Detachment and is being held in custody pending a court appearance on March 10.
The driver of the second vehicle, a 49-year-old man of West Dalhousie, was arrested for impaired operation causing death at a nearby home shortly after the incident. He was transported to Middleton RCMP Detachment and later released pending a future court appearance.
A third side-by-side vehicle was present at the scene but it is not believed to have been involved in the collision.
An investigation is ongoing, led by Annapolis District RCMP with assistance of the RCMP Collision Analysis and Reconstruction Services and the Nova Scotia Medical Examiner Service. Anyone with information is asked to contact RCMP or submit an anonymous tip to Crime Stoppers.
