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UPDATE: Lethbridge man charged w in fatal Highway 3 crash at Coalhurst

One person has been killed following a two vehicle crash Monday evening (Nov. 25) at the entrance to Coalhurst off Highway 3.

Coalhurst Fire Rescue along with RCMP were called to the intersection around 7:15 pm. Mounties say a car heading westbound on the highway collided with an SUV that was stopped at a stop sign at the railway tracks.

A 66-year old woman from Coalhurst in the SUV died at the scene. The driver of the car though had only minor injuries and was taken to Chinook Regional Hospital.

Wesley Brian Phillips, 36 of Lethbridge, has since been charged criminally with refusing to provide a blood sample. He has been ordered to appear in Lethbridge Provincial Court on January 17.

Coaldale RCMP say an investigation is still ongoing and additional charges may be laid.

Patrick Siedlecki
Patrick Siedlecki
Pat has been a mainstay in the CJOC News department from the time the station launched in 2007. He's been in the position of News Director since then and has been anchoring daily news casts as well as reporting and working behind the scenes. Community is important to him and keeping CJOC listeners and readers informed about what's happening across southern Alberta and beyond. Pat has been in radio broadcasting for the past 24 years, starting in Port Alberni on Vancouver Island in 1997 and then moving up island to Nanaimo for another few years before heading to Lethbridge in 2007. Pat grew up in the small Saskatchewan farming town of Foam Lake. After high school, he went to Western Academy Broadcasting College (WABC) in Saskatoon prior to moving to the island. Pat also spent several years broadcasting hockey in the BCHL as well as seven years as the radio voice of the Lethbridge Hurricanes in the WHL. Pat has been working at Cornerstone Funeral Home in Lethbridge as a Certified Life Celebrant and Funeral Assistant since 2016. News and sports have always been Pat's passion from the time he was a teenager and he's always been grateful to have had the opportunity to make that part of what's been a fun and long radio career!
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