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Pretrial For Southgate Man Charged After Fatal Crash

A Southgate man is in Walkerton court today for a pretrial related to a crash that killed two women.

West Grey police have charged 22-year-old Joseph Schouten with careless driving and failing to stop at a stop sign.

The collision north of Ayton on January 23 took the lives of 52-year-old Ruth Weiser of Mount Forest and her mother, 81 year-old Joan Weiser of West Grey.

Schouten was taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries after the crash.

The OPP technical traffic investigators were also investigating.

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