{"id":58949,"date":"2025-10-02T19:04:52","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T22:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=58949"},"modified":"2025-10-02T19:04:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T22:04:52","slug":"fatal-lower-sackville-collision-claims-life-of-upper-sackville-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=58949","title":{"rendered":"Fatal Lower Sackville collision claims life of Upper Sackville man"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56506&#8243;]<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>LOWER SACKVILLE:<\/strong> A 57-year-old Upper Sackville man has died as a result of a single-vehicle collision on Wednesday night in Lower Sackville.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>RCMP say they are investigating the fatal collision that occurred at approximately 7:36 p.m. on Freer Lane. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police, EHS, and local fire responded to the call. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Officers learned a Mitsubishi RVR was travelling towards the Cobequid Community Health Centre when the vehicle went off the road and into the ditch.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The driver and lone occupant, a 57-year-old man from Upper Sackville, was pronounced deceased at the scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56179&#8243;]<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>An RCMP collision reconstructionist attended the location of the crash and Freer Lane was closed for several hours.&nbsp; It has since reopened.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The investigation is ongoing.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyone with information or dashcam video of the crash is asked to contact the RCMP Halifax Regional Detachment at 902-490-5050. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To remain anonymous, call Nova Scotia Crime Stoppers, toll-free at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477), submit a secure web tip at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crimestoppers.ns.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.crimestoppers.ns.ca<\/a> or use the P3 Tips app.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>File #: 25-142446<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56526&#8243;]<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:35px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56530&#8243;]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOWER SACKVILLE: A 57-year-old Upper Sackville man has died as a result of a single-vehicle collision on Wednesday night in Lower Sackville. RCMP say they are investigating the fatal collision that occurred at approximately 7:36 p.m. on Freer Lane. Police, EHS, and local fire responded to the call. Officers learned a Mitsubishi RVR was travelling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17036,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,957],"tags":[980,9330,13,14,1441],"class_list":["post-58949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","tag-fatal-collision","tag-freer-lane","tag-lower-sackville","tag-rcmp","tag-upper-sackville"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58949","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=58949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}