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New Brunswick man charged with dangerous driving causing death of 19-year-old

New Brunswick RCMP have charged a man in connection to a fatal crash near Sackville. File / Global News

New Brunswick man has been charged with dangerous driving causing death as a result of a fatal crash near the Nova Scotia border.

Police responded just before 10 p.m. Sunday to a report of a single-vehicle crash on Route 106 in Frosty Hollow, just outside Sackville, N.B.

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The driver, a 19-year-old Sackville woman, was rushed to hospital in critical condition but died of her injuries Tuesday.

A passenger in the same car suffered minor injuries.

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The investigation into the crash determined that a second vehicle at the scene was a factor in the fatal crash.

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Patrick Cole, the 27-year-old driver of that second vehicle, was charged and remanded pending a bail hearing Friday.

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