Trial in fatal accident set for next summer
Roderick Gerard Hallihan, 53, previously pleaded not guilty to September 2022 counts of dangerous driving, driving without due care causing death of Mackenzie Green
A Renous man accused of causing a Mill Cove man’s death in an accident in Youngs Cove last year will stand trial on two charges next summer.
Roderick Gerard Hallihan, 53, of Route 108 in Renous, faces a criminal charge of dangerous driving causing the death of Mackenzie “Mack” Green, and a related count under the provincial Motor Vehicle Act of driving without due care and attention.
The RCMP laid the charges in July, but they allege events stemming from a fatal accident in Youngs Cover on Sept. 17, 2022.
Hallihan previously elected to be tried in provincial court on the criminal count, and pleaded not guilty to both charges.
The matter was set over for a case-management conference and to schedule the defendant’s trial.
It was during that court proceeding Nov. 3 that a judge scheduled Hallihan’s trial for Aug. 9, almost two years after the events giving rise to the charges.
However, the case is due back in court Nov. 23 for a further case-management conference. Such pre-trial proceedings aren’t open to the public.
The RCMP, in a news release issued around the time of the incident, said a 24-year-old man from Mill Cove - later identified as Green - died as a result of a two-vehicle collision.
Members of the Sussex detachment responded to the accident scene at around 3 p.m. at the intersection of Route 10 and Bagdad Road in the Youngs Cove area, it said, noting a car and pickup truck had been involved in a collision.
Green, who’d been driving the car, was rushed to hospital but succumbed to his injuries Sept. 18, 2022, the release said.
Hallihan was driving the pickup truck and was its sole occupant.
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