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VOCM News Morning Update September 20th · VOCM On Demand

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  Speaker 1: Local News Now, a VOCM News Update.
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  Speaker 2: Seven degrees in Metro on the Sunday morning, winds down
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  Speaker 2: to 35. Good morning, I'm Brian Medour. That highway crash
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  Speaker 2: on the West Coast Friday afternoon has left one person dead.
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  Speaker 2: The fiery collision, which involved a transport truck and a
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  Speaker 2: sedan on the TCH near Logger School Road in Cornerbrook,
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  Speaker 2: happened around 1 o'clock. The only passenger in the car,
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  Speaker 2: a 62-year-old woman from Ontario, was pronounced deceased at the scene.
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  Speaker 2: The two drivers were assessed by paramedics at the crash
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  Speaker 2: site for injuries determined not to be life-threatening. RNC looking
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  Speaker 2: for any witnesses or footage from the area in the
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  Speaker 2: lead-up to or immediately following the accident. You can contact
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  Speaker 2: them at 637-4100, area code 709. Two people have been
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  Speaker 2: charged with drunk driving after two separate crashes this week
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  Speaker 2: on the Avalon Peninsula, in which vehicle... met building, the
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  Speaker 2: OCM's Mahalia Artis reports.
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  Speaker 1: Last Sunday night, an officer was flagged down by a
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  Speaker 1: concerned citizen in Ferndale, giving information about an accident on
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  Speaker 1: Ferndale Road. RCMP say a car slammed into a house,
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  Speaker 1: causing extensive damage to both. The driver, a 72-year-old woman
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  Speaker 1: from Dunville, was not seriously injured and had been taken
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  Speaker 1: in by residents of the house. Police say she seemed
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  Speaker 1: to be impaired, so she was taken to the Placentia
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  Speaker 1: Health Centre for a blood sample. Officers seized the vehicle
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  Speaker 1: and took her license, but are awaiting lab results to
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  Speaker 1: see whether she was impaired. At about 8 o'clock Thursday night,
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  Speaker 1: a vehicle ran into a shed on Main Road in Jerseyside.
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  Speaker 1: A 63-year-old woman from Freshwater was arrested after police noticed
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  Speaker 1: signs of impairment and saw open alcohol in the vehicle.
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  Speaker 1: She refused the breathalyzer and was charged accordingly. Mahalia Artis, VOCM,
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  Speaker 1: Local News Now.
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  Speaker 2: Metro Police are caught up with the woman who was
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  Speaker 2: on their wanted list for a robbery with violence. RNC
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  Speaker 2: were patrolling in downtown St. John's mid-afternoon yesterday when they
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  Speaker 2: spotted the 23-year-old getting out of a vehicle in the
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  Speaker 2: area of Livingstone Street. She's a suspect in a robbery
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  Speaker 2: at a local business September 9th in which a security
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  Speaker 2: guard was assaulted. She'll be formally charged with robbery with violence,
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  Speaker 2: damaging property and breach of a release order when she
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  Speaker 2: appears before a judge. today. Prime Minister Mark Carney is
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  Speaker 2: going to become the first Canadian leader to make an
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  Speaker 2: official visit to Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon today. The two islands, located just
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  Speaker 2: off the tip of the Buren Peninsula, have a combined
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  Speaker 2: population of just under 6,000 people. Mark Carney is meeting
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  Speaker 2: with the French President Emmanuel Macron to discuss potential energy
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  Speaker 2: and aerospace partnerships. Weather forecast, St. John's Metro, rest of
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  Speaker 2: the Avalon. Clearing this afternoon, northwesterlies ease back to 30,
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  Speaker 2: a high of 11. Clarenville Central, sun today, winds 30,
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  Speaker 2: high of 10. South Coast, sunny and 12 today with
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  Speaker 2: light winds. West Coast, southwest coast, northern peninsula, sunny and
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  Speaker 2: 10 degrees today. That's your news, I'm Brian Medore.