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A 27-year-old Coleville man is facing impaired driving charges in connection with a rollover that killed another man from that community two weeks ago.
On Sept. 12 at around 11:45 p.m., RCMP officers from the Kindersley detachment responded to a call about a single-vehicle crash on a township road approximately seven kilometres west of Highway 21.
A 42-year-old man who was riding in the vehicle was pronounced dead at the scene. Police didn’t release the man’s name.
The man who was driving the vehicle and two other male passengers were taken to hospital with relatively minor injuries.
On Monday, the Mounties said the driver, Henry Kleinsasser, had been charged with one count each of impaired driving causing death and dangerous driving causing death, and two counts each of impaired driving causing bodily harm and dangerous driving causing bodily harm.
He’s to appear in Kindersley Provincial Court on Dec. 19.
Two fatal rollovers
Two men are dead after rollovers in the province on the weekend.
On Saturday at around 9:30 p.m., the Carrot River RCMP got a call about a utility terrain vehicle rollover in the RM of Moose Range.
A 25-year-old man from Warman who was a passenger on the machine was pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics. The man’s name wasn’t released by police.
The driver and a second passenger were taken to hospital for treatment.
On Sunday, the Maidstone Mounties got a call at around 7 a.m., about a vehicle rolling on a range road south of Lone Rock.
The driver — the only person in the vehicle — died at the scene. He has been identified as a 24-year-old man from Lashburn; the man’s name wasn’t released by the RCMP.
A Saskatchewan RCMP collision reconstructionist is investigating the crashes.