**** RCMP Media Release
East Hants District RCMP are investigating after a near collision with a police car
East Hants District RCMP are investigating an incident that involved a near collision with a police car on Hwy. 354 in Kennetcook.
On August 5, 2022, at approximately 1 a.m., East Hants District RCMP members were travelling along Hwy. 354 in Kennetcook, after having finished responding to a complaint in Noel. While the RCMP officers, in two separate police cars, were travelling on Hwy. 354, a vehicle heading in the opposite direction crossed the centre line and nearly collided with the first police car. The RCMP officer had to take avoiding action and called over the radio to the second officer about the near collision. The second RCMP officer observed the vehicle, a black car, pass him and continue on Hwy. 354.
As both officers were in the process of turning their police cars around, the black car left the roadway and came to rest in a ditch. The officers proceeded to the location of the collision and located two people in the vehicle, the driver, a 41-year-old Noel man and a passenger, a 38-year-old Lower Sackville woman.
The woman was uninjured; however, the man had sustained life-threatening injuries and was bleeding heavily.
The RCMP officers called for an ambulance and placed a tourniquet on the man to stop the bleeding. They continued to provide first aid until EHS arrived at the scene. The man was then transported by ambulance to hospital in Halifax. Without the application of the tourniquet and first aid provided by the RCMP officers at the scene, the man would have likely succumbed to his injuries.
RCMP officers noted that the man had been displaying signs of impairment after he crashed his vehicle into the ditch and an investigation related to impaired driving is ongoing.
