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Martensville, Sask., man pleads guilty to impaired driving causing death

Dawn and Sam Schnurr lost their 11-year-old daughter Sophie (left) in an impaired driving crash on Dec. 21, 2018, outside of Warman, Sask. GoFundMe / Supplied Photo

A Martensville, Sask., man has pleaded guilty to impaired driving causing death, after a crash last December that killed a girl near Warman.

Sophie Schnurr, 11, was killed on Dec. 21, 2018 after two half-ton trucks collided head-on on Highway 305 near Highway 11.

Police said two other people in the truck Schnurr was a passenger in were injured.

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Anthony McClelland pleaded guilty in court on Tuesday to impaired driving causing death, along with impaired driving causing bodily harm.

He will be sentenced on March 19, 2020.

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With files from Thomas Piller

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