A man charged following a fatal single-vehicle crash in Inverness Co. has been sentenced.
Cole William Dermody, 22, originally faced counts of impaired operation causing death and impaired operation causing bodily harm.
The Whycocomagh man had those charges withdrawn, and instead entered a guilty plea to a lesser impaired driving charge during an election-and-plea hearing in Port Hawkesbury Provincial Court Monday.
He received a $1,500 fine, a probation order and a one-year licence suspension.
RCMP say a Jeep was travelling north on MacLeod Settlement Rd. in Glencoe when it struck a bank and rolled in August.
Dermody’s brother, 19-year-old Owen Lawrence Dermody, was pronounced dead at the scene; a 20-year-old woman from Mabou suffered serious but non-life-threatening injuries when she was ejected from the vehicle.
Three others had minor injuries.
Police say Dermody took a roadside screening device test and failed; he was arrested for impaired driving, and taken to Port Hawkesbury for further testing.
