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A 20-year-old from London faces a raft of charges including impaired driving causing bodily harm after a vehicle struck a pedestrian and sheared a utility pole along Richmond Street near Western University roughly one month ago.
Police announced the charges on Tuesday in connection with the collision, which happened at about 2:30 a.m. on Sept. 12 near the intersection of Richmond Street and Epworth Avenue. Police have previously said a pedestrian suffered life-threatening injuries in the crash and that one driver was taken to hospital with serious injuries.
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A black four-door vehicle with heavy front-end damage was towed from the scene. A photo published by officials with the London Fire Department showed a utility pole cut in half by the collision.
In the aftermath of the middle-of-the-night crash, power was knocked out for several hours to about 1,000 homes and businesses and classes were also cancelled for the day at Western University’s King’s University College.
Rai Hume lives near the crash scene. Hours after it happened, he recalled to The Free Press that he saw one person who was “screaming hysterically in a rage and . . . crying about his car.”
On Tuesday, London police said that Iknoor Singh Grewal, 20, of London has been charged with two counts of failing to comply with demands by a peace officer causing bodily harm; two counts of dangerous driving causing bodily harm; two counts of impaired driving causing bodily harm; and a marijuana-related charge.
Grewal is scheduled to next appear in London court on Nov. 7, police said.
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