Powerview-Pine Falls resident charged in fatal hit-and-run collision with pedestrian

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RCMP have charged a 66-year-old man in a fatal hit-and-run collision with a pedestrian at Brokenhead Ojibway Nation in April.

Richard Neyedly, a resident of Powerview-Pine Falls, was charged Aug. 14 with dangerous operation of a motor vehicle causing death and failing to remain at the scene of the collision. He is scheduled to appear in a Selkirk courtroom Sept. 8.

Court records show that Neyedly has no convictions in Manitoba.

On April 20, Larry Hodge, 75, was walking to work on the shoulder of Highway 59 when he was fatally struck by a vehicle operated by Neyedly near the community of Scanterbury, police say.

Neyedly allegedly fled and Hodge was pronounced dead at the scene. Police seized the vehicle involved in the collision the following day.

Following Hodge’s death, Brokenhead Chief Gord Bluesky and other community leaders called for tighter road-safety measures, passing a council resolution urging the province to reduce the speed limit from 80 km/h to 50 on the two-kilometre stretch of Highway 59 that runs through Brokenhead.

They also called for pedestrian safety crossings, additional shoulder space and lighting on that section of the highway.

The speed limit was reduced to 50 km/h in May.

Selkirk RCMP are continuing to investigate the case.

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