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RCMP have laid impaired driving charges against a man identified by police as the common-law partner of a woman killed in a rollover near Cypress River.
Treherne RCMP Cpl. Carrie Kennedy said the couple and some friends were in a pickup truck when it crashed.
“People were leaving a social and they were going out to the after-party,” Kennedy said.
Shanley Lee Vrooman, 22, of Cypress River died when she was thrown from a Ford F-150 pickup truck that rolled in the RM of Victoria along Provincial Road 342 in the early morning of June 24.
Kennedy said a total of five people were in the truck and they were travelling to an after-party following a social in Cypress River.
The driver of the truck lost control on a gravel road and the vehicle wound up in the ditch, Kennedy said. Vrooman and three other occupants were thrown from the truck.
A 46-year-old woman was taken to Brandon hospital with serious injuries and is now recovering in Rivers hospital. A 21-year-old man was taken to Glenboro hospital where he was treated for broken bones and received stitches to his head. He’s since been released from hospital.
The 22-year-old man who was driving the truck was flown by air ambulance to Winnipeg and remained in Health Sciences Centre for a number of days before being released.
None of the thrown occupants were wearing seatbelts, Kennedy said. A 25-year-old woman, who was wearing a seatbelt and wasn’t thrown from the vehicle, was also taken to Glenboro hospital but released a short time later.
On Friday, police announced that Curtis Cabernel, 22, of Cypress River has been charged with impaired driving causing death and driving with a blood-alcohol level over the legal limit causing death.
He’s also charged with two counts of impaired driving causing bodily harm and two counts of driving with a blood-alcohol level over the legal limit causing bodily harm.
Kennedy said Cabernel was the common-law partner of Vrooman, while her obituary describes him as her close friend and partner. Vrooman, formerly of Belmont, had worked at a dental centre in Brandon.
Cabernel was arrested on Aug. 2, then released on conditions to appear in Portage la Prairie court on Sept. 24.
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Republished from the Brandon Sun print edition August 18, 2012
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RCMP have laid impaired driving charges against a man identified by police as the common-law partner of a woman killed in a rollover near Cypress River.
Treherne RCMP Cpl. Carrie Kennedy said the couple and some friends were in a pickup truck when it crashed.
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RCMP have laid impaired driving charges against a man identified by police as the common-law partner of a woman killed in a rollover near Cypress River.
Treherne RCMP Cpl. Carrie Kennedy said the couple and some friends were in a pickup truck when it crashed.
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