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Peace officers in Brooks stopped and charged a driver for driving 153 kilometres per hour – nearly twice the speed limit – on Seventh Street E. near Railway Avenue on Aug. 29. The male driver was arrested, given a ticket, charged with careless driving and ordered to appear in court in October.
RCMP officers found a flat-bed trailer that came detached on the Trans-Canada Highway in a field 5 kilometres east of Tilley on Aug. 30. The owner said the trailer broke away after a pin sheared and safety chain broke. No one was injured though the trailer smashed through a barbed-wire fence.
Two men were taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries on Aug. 31 after a single-vehicle crash on Highway 875 near Rolling Hills. The investigation is ongoing.
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