{"id":188401,"date":"2025-10-04T00:08:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T00:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/188401\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T00:08:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T00:08:12","slug":"dangerous-driving-charge-laid-in-whitemud-crash-that-killed-edmonton-father-edmonton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/188401\/","title":{"rendered":"Dangerous driving charge laid in Whitemud crash that killed Edmonton father – Edmonton"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Three months after a crash claimed the life of an Edmonton man<\/a>, police have laid charges against the semi driver involved in the fatal southside collision.<\/p>\n

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Global News spoke with victim Ashton Wilson\u2019s fianc\u00e9e two days after the crash<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Miranda Sharp said the couple had just become engaged earlier in the spring during a family vacation to Disney World, after they had been together for five years.<\/p>\n

The LGBTQ2 couple said they were planning to get married next summer and had started the process of having another child with a sperm donor.<\/p>\n

Sharp said Wilson taught at the School for the Deaf, adding inclusion and accessibility were values he lived by.<\/p>\n

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Wilson was driving with their daughter when the collision happened on June 17, on Whitemud Drive near the 111 Street overpass.<\/p>\n

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Wilson was headed home with the four-year-old in the backseat when he pulled over to check something on the vehicle.<\/p>\n

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When the 39-year-old was standing outside of the van inspecting it, Wilson was struck by an oncoming semi truck also headed east.<\/p>\n

EMS and police responded to the collision, but Wilson was declared dead on scene. Police said the four-year-old was taken to the Stollery Children\u2019s Hospital as a precaution but wasn\u2019t hurt.<\/p>\n

The EPS Major Collision Investigations Section investigated the collision, and on Oct. 1, laid charges against the semi-truck driver.<\/p>\n

Bhupinder Singh, 38, is charged with dangerous driving causing death.<\/p>\n

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