{"id":54005,"date":"2025-04-30T11:51:46","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T14:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=54005"},"modified":"2025-04-30T11:51:46","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T14:51:46","slug":"lower-truro-man-charged-in-fatal-cape-breton-collision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=54005","title":{"rendered":"Lower Truro man charged in fatal Cape Breton collision"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;188&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;192&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>LOWER TRURO\/BADDECK INLET:<\/strong> A 36-year-old Lower Truro man has been charged following an invetigation into a fatal collision that occurred in Baddeck Inlet in Oct. 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police said in a release that Victoria County RCMP have charged the man following their investigation into the Oct. 7 incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At approximately 6:10 p.m. on Oct. 7, 2024, Victoria County District RCMP, fire services, EHS, and the Nova Scotia Department of Public Works responded to a collision near the 8000 block of Hwy. 105. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two vehicles, a Western Star tractor trailer and a Hyundai Tuscon, had collided before coming to rest in the ditch. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;31&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;115&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The driver and passenger in the Hyundai, a 45-year-old man and a 49-year-old woman both of British Columbia, were pronounced deceased at the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On April 24, Victoria County District RCMP arrested 36-year-old Matthew Seymour Creelman of Lower Truro. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He faces two charges of Dangerous Operation of a Conveyance Causing Death. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;71&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Creelman was released on conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He is scheduled to appear in Wagmatcook Provincial Court on June 4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An RCMP collision reconstructionist and the Nova Scotia RCMP Interview Assist Team supported the investigation that led to these charges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>File #: 2024-1481949<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;105&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;126&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;188&#8243;] [adrotate banner=&#8221;192&#8243;] LOWER TRURO\/BADDECK INLET: A 36-year-old Lower Truro man has been charged following an invetigation into a fatal collision that occurred in Baddeck Inlet in Oct. 2024. Police said in a release that Victoria County RCMP have charged the man following their investigation into the Oct. 7 incident. At approximately 6:10 p.m. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4065,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,957],"tags":[8261,1580,980,3230,14],"class_list":["post-54005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","tag-baddeck-inlet","tag-cape-breton","tag-fatal-collision","tag-lower-truro","tag-rcmp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}