{"id":59951,"date":"2025-11-02T11:57:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T15:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=59951"},"modified":"2025-11-02T11:57:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T15:57:07","slug":"child-dies-in-antigonish-county-mvc-police-seeking-witnesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=59951","title":{"rendered":"Child dies in Antigonish County mvc; police seeking witnesses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56506&#8243;]<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ANTIGONISH COUNTY:<\/strong> A child has died in a two-vehicle collision in Antigonish County where the second vehicle involved did not remain at the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>RCMP say that on November 1 at approximately 9:50 p.m., police, fire services, and EHS responded to a report of a collision on Hwy. 104 near Dagger Woods Rd. and Pomquet Monks Head Rd. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Upon arrival at the scene, officers learned that a collision had occurred between a car and a large farm or construction vehicle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The four occupants of the car, a black Toyota Rav 4, were transported to hospital by EHS. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One passenger, a child, was pronounced deceased at hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56526&#8243;]<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The other vehicle did not remain on the scene. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Investigators later located the vehicle believed to be involved; it has been seized for investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The investigation remains ongoing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A collision reconstructionist attended the scene and the road was closed for several hours. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Nova Scotia Medical Examiner Service is also involved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56511&#8243;]<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Investigators want to speak with anyone who was travelling on Hwy. 104 during the evening of November 1 and may have seen either of the vehicles involved. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to contact Antigonish County District RCMP at 902-863-6500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> To remain anonymous, call Nova Scotia Crime Stoppers, toll-free, at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can also 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 #: 2025-1626819<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56501&#8243;]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANTIGONISH COUNTY: A child has died in a two-vehicle collision in Antigonish County where the second vehicle involved did not remain at the scene. RCMP say that on November 1 at approximately 9:50 p.m., police, fire services, and EHS responded to a report of a collision on Hwy. 104 near Dagger Woods Rd. and Pomquet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4065,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[957],"tags":[1753,9618,9619,2634,1081,1375,14],"class_list":["post-59951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-antigonish","tag-antigonish-county","tag-dagger-woods-road","tag-fatal-mvc","tag-hwy-104","tag-n-s-rcmp","tag-rcmp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59951","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=59951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59951\/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=59951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}