EDMONTON – Edmonton police have issued a Canada-wide warrant for the driver of a fatal single-vehicle crash on Gateway Boulevard last week.
Police say Ryan Richard Wilneff walked away from a hospital after sustaining non-life threatening injuries in the collision which killed a 28-year-old passenger.
Wilneff is facing a number of charges, including impaired operation causing death, dangerous driving causing death, possession of a controlled substance, and four breach of probation orders.
The Edmonton Police Service (EOS) Major Collision Investigation Section expanded Wilneff’s warrant for arrest from provincial to Canada-wide due to the severity of the charges.
Police allege Wilneff was driving a Jeep Wrangler on Gateway Boulevard at 2 a.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 22, when the vehicle reportedly veered off the road between 60 and 61 Avenue. The Jeep knocked down a light standard, continuing through a parking lot and striking several billboards and tress in its path, before colliding head-on into the wall of a business.
The death was the second traffic fatality of the year in Edmonton.
Wilneff is a native of Nova Scotia.
On March 22, 2013, he was arrested on a warrant in Dartmouth.
Anyone with information on his whereabouts is asked to contact Edmonton police at 780-423-4567.