By Josh Hall (Twitter: @Vancan19)

DELAYED BY COVID-19

Innisfail man charged in connection to crash near Sundre last summer

Jan 9, 2021 | 10:19 AM

Sundre RCMP has laid charges related to a three-vehicle crash which happened last summer.

It was about 1 p.m on Aug. 6 on Highway 27 near Range Road 52, just east of town, where police say a westbound pickup truck crossed the centre line and struck an eastbound car. The car then spun and hit another westbound pickup truck.

The lone driver of the car, a 41-year-old male driver from Airdrie, suffered serious life-threatening injuries and was flown by STARS Air Ambulance to a Calgary area hospital.

The lone driver of the first pickup truck, a 43-year-old male driver from Innisfail, suffered serious but non-life threatening injuries and was taken to local hospital for treatment.

The three occupants of the second truck were not injured, according to RCMP.

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RCMP say that after obtaining a blood sample from the driver of the first pickup truck, and submitting it to the National Forensics Laboratory Services in Edmonton for analysis, they were able to determine a match.

There was a delay in achieving this, RCMP note, because of COVID-19 protocols.

Now 44-years-old, Innisfail resident Jeremy Meissner has been charged with dangerous operation of a conveyance causing bodily harm, fail to comply with a breath demand, operation of a conveyance while impaired by drug and/or alcohol, operation of a conveyance causing bodily harm while impaired by drug and/or alcohol, and four counts of fail to comply with a release order.

Meissner was located and arrested by Innisfail RCMP recently and brought before a judge. He was released on a $2,000 promise to pay release order, with several other conditions.

He is scheduled to appear in Didsbury Provincial Court on Feb. 8.

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