Police received impaired driving tip about vehicle before fatal Falmouth crash

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· Posted: May 12, 2025 2:24 PM EDT | Last Updated: 5 minutes ago

RCMP say a conveyance progressive successful a clang that killed 5 radical connected Saturday nighttime was the taxable of an "extensive" hunt earlier that evening related to an impaired driving report.

On Saturday astir 11:12 p.m. AT, a Honda Civic and a Nissan Sentra collided connected Highway 101 betwixt Hantsport, N.S., and Falmouth, astir 1.5 kilometres from Exit 7. Five radical died successful the clang and 1 idiosyncratic was critically injured. 

Police accidental the Civic was going the incorrect absorption successful the eastbound lanes of the twinned conception of highway.

In a quality merchandise connected Monday afternoon, RCMP said Kings District RCMP responded to a imaginable impaired operator telephone astatine 7:20 p.m. involving the aforesaid Honda Civic.

The conveyance was past seen astatine a edifice connected Highway 1 adjacent the 11600 artifact successful Grand Pré, but contempt an extended hunt for the car by aggregate officers successful Kings and West Hants counties, constabulary did not find it.

RCMP are asking the nationalist for assistance pinpointing wherever the conveyance was earlier 7:20 p.m. and earlier the crash.

The car is simply a bluish 2014 Honda Civic with the licence sheet HLF590.

Anyone with accusation astir the vehicle, oregon with dashcam footage of the country earlier the collision, is asked to telephone West Hants District RCMP astatine 902-798-2207, oregon Crime Stoppers.