A man charged following an 11 vehicle collision where three people were killed, and many more injured entered guilty pleas in provincial court in Drumheller.
On Friday, October 15, Daniel Zacharias Wollmann of Mitchell, Manitoba appeared in court. He pleaded guilty to one count of dangerous driving causing death, naming the three people who died in the collision and one charge of dangerous driving operation causing bodily harm, naming those injured in the collision.
On August 20, 2019, after 3:30 p.m. Oyen RCMP responded to a collision involving 11 vehicles on Highway 9 at Range Road 72, between Chinook and Cereal. The collision involved passenger vehicles and three semi-truck units. One unit was hauling fuel and another butane. Fire engulfed the crash site.
An evacuation alert was issued for the area on the evening of the crash due to smoke.
On February 27, 2020, Oyen RCMP announced three charges of dangerous operation causing death, and 14 charges of dangerous operation causing bodily harm were against Wollmann.
Last Friday, Judge Gasher accepted Wollmann’s pleas, and the court accepted an agreed statement of facts, which was not read into the record.
Sentencing is scheduled for January 14, 2022.
