Charges laid in fatal Feb. crash near Chinook Centre
Posted Aug 30, 2021 1:55 pm.
Last Updated Aug 30, 2021 1:59 pm.
CALGARY – Calgary police have laid dangerous driving charges in a crash that killed a man and injured a woman and a child earlier this year.
On Feb. 18, Aliyah Ramirez-Bernard, her boyfriend Blade Crow, and her daughter were struck by an SUV near Chinook Centre as they waited to cross at a concrete island on Macleod Trail near Glenmore Trail.
The family of three was just blocks from their home when they were hit.
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“We were going to go home and make dinner together because he didn’t know how to cook, I was going to teach him,” Ramirez-Bernard told CityNews from her hospital bed in a previous interview.
She said she doesn’t remember much from that tragic night.
“I just remember seeing headlights and then it went black.”
Crow died on scene while Ramirez-Bernard and her child were taken to Foothills Hospital and the Alberta Children’s Hospital, respectively, in serious, life-threatening condition.
Police say the driver of the SUV that ultimately hit the family was speeding excessively, and continued down the street, traveling across two other raised islands and hitting a snowbank before coming to a stop.
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The driver got out of the car and took off on foot but police eventually tracked him down and arrested him.
The 29-year-old man who was behind the wheel has been charged with two counts each of dangerous operation of a motor vehicle causing bodily harm and failing to stop at the scene of an accident resulting in bodily harm.
He was also charged with dangerous operation of a motor vehicle causing death and failing to stop at the scene of an accident resulting in death.
He’s scheduled to appear in court in October.
