SUNDRE – A man from Innisfail facing numerous charges in connection with a three-vehicle crash that occurred near Sundre late in the summer of 2020 is scheduled for a trial in March.
At about 1 p.m. on Aug. 6, 2020, emergency crews responded to a collision on Highway 27 immediately east of Sundre that left an Airdrie man who at the time was 41, seriously injured.
Police had reported that a westbound 2009 pickup truck had crossed the centre line and collided into an eastbound 1963 Dodge car, causing the latter to spin out of control and strike another westbound 2018 pickup truck whose operator was unable to avoid the crash.
The occupants in the 2018 pickup truck were not harmed as a result. However, the driver behind the wheel of the Dodge – identified as Travis Hanna – was airlifted to Foothills Medical Centre, where he remained in recovery well into September of that year.
The Innisfailian suffered serious but non-life threatening injuries and was taken by ground ambulance to the Myron Thompson Health Centre in Sundre.
Months later, the Sundre RCMP laid several charges against Jeremy Meissner, including impaired driving causing bodily harm, failure to comply with a request to provide a sample for analysis, dangerous driving causing bodily harm, as well as four counts of failing to comply with a release order.
Meissner is slated to be on trial in Didsbury provincial court on March 16, 2023 and was on Dec. 13 scheduled to have a bail application heard.
According to a clerk with provincial courts, he received a release order on a financial obligation with a promise to pay $2,000.
