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Parsons Pond woman guilty of dangerous driving causing death

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Posted this 2025-06-02 4:16 PM NDT

Neila Blanchard struck and killed teen walking to school in 2017

CBC NewsMatt McCann

Neila Blanchard, speaking here with her lawyer Jim Bennett in 2019, has been found guilty of dangerous driving causing death. (Troy Turner/CBC)

A judge has found a Parsons Pond woman guilty of dangerous driving causing death at the end of a second trial held six years after the woman's acquittal.

Neila Blanchard, 58, struck and killed 17-year-old Justin Hynes as he was walking to school on Sept. 11, 2017.

In a Corner Brook courtroom on Monday, Blanchard sat next to her lawyer Jim Bennett as Justi…

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