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Driver charged after collision with ambulance

Jan 3, 2019 | 8:20 AM

Bradley Jamie Isbister, 23, of the Ahtahkakoop Cree Nation has been charged with impaired operation of a motor vehicle by alcohol, and exceeding 80 mg of alcohol within two hours of operating conveyance after a collision involving an ambulance and a personal vehicle.

On Jan. 1, 2019, at approximately 3:15 p.m., Ahtahkakoop RCMP were called to a collision involving an ambulance and a personal vehicle on the Debden grid road, approximately six kilometres north of Highway 790 on Ahtahkakoop Cree Nation. The ambulance, belonging to Big River EMS, was traveling south en route to an unrelated call on Ahtahkakoop Cree Nation, when it was struck head-on by a personal vehicle.

Both EMS attendants in the ambulance were uninjured. The driver and passenger of the personal vehicle were taken to nearby hospital with what were described as non-serious injuries. Both have since been released. The driver showed signs of being impaired at the scene and, when released from hospital, was taken into police custody.

Isbister will appear in Ahtahkakoop Cree Nation Court on February 11.