JUDIQUE: On July 13 at approximately 8:05 p.m., Inverness County District RCMP and Emergency Health Services (EHS) responded to a report of an ATV rollover in the ditch along the 5000 block of Highway 19 in Judique.

One individual sustained upper-body injuries and was transported to hospital by EHS.

RCMP are continuing to investigate the circumstances surrounding the incident and are asking anyone with information or dashcam footage to come forward. Investigators are particularly interested in any video or details showing the moments leading up to, during, or immediately following the crash.

In a post shared to Facebook, one individual who claimed to be an eyewitness described what occurred.

“Two 4 wheelers and a side by side left the store racing on the pavement headed northbound,” the post stated. “They almost ran an oncoming car off the road as they were racing side by side and taking up most of the road. Not even a kilometer later, the side by side crashed and flipped over leaving a young lady injured and unconscious on the side of the road.”

Anyone with relevant information is asked to contact the Inverness County District RCMP at 902-258-2213.

Drake Lowthers

Drake Lowthers has been a community journalist for The Reporter since July, 2018. His coverage of the suspicious death of Cassidy Bernard garnered him a 2018 Atlantic Journalism Award and a 2019 Better Newspaper Competition Award; while his extensive coverage of the Lionel Desmond Fatality Inquiry received a second place finish nationally in the 2020 Canadian Community Newspaper Awards for Best Feature Series. A Nova Scotia native, who has called Antigonish home for the past decade, Lowthers has a strong passion in telling people’s stories in a creative, yet thought-provoking way. He graduated from the journalism program at Holland College in 2016, where he played varsity football with the Hurricanes. His simple pleasures in life include his two children, photography, live music and the local sports scene.

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Drake Lowthers
Drake Lowthers has been a community journalist for The Reporter since July, 2018. His coverage of the suspicious death of Cassidy Bernard garnered him a 2018 Atlantic Journalism Award and a 2019 Better Newspaper Competition Award; while his extensive coverage of the Lionel Desmond Fatality Inquiry received a second place finish nationally in the 2020 Canadian Community Newspaper Awards for Best Feature Series. A Nova Scotia native, who has called Antigonish home for the past decade, Lowthers has a strong passion in telling people’s stories in a creative, yet thought-provoking way. He graduated from the journalism program at Holland College in 2016, where he played varsity football with the Hurricanes. His simple pleasures in life include his two children, photography, live music and the local sports scene.