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Andrew Nepinak from Pine Creek First Nation has been charged with impaired driving and dangerous operation of a vehicle.

On Tuesday at 1:30 p.m., Swan River RCMP responded to a collision on Highway 83 at the intersection of 2nd Avenue in Benito. A passenger bus travelling north was struck by another vehicle that slid through the stop sign. 

While on the scene, officers received a report of a driver going south on Highway 83 at a high rate of speed and driving dangerously towards Benito.

Officers set up a spike belt north of Benito to apprehend the suspect. Andrew's vehicle stalled south of Kenville, and he was arrested.