Man found not guilty in connection with crash that killed woman in Dawson City, Yukon

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· Posted: Jun 25, 2025 9:48 PM EDT | Last Updated: 1 infinitesimal ago

A Yukon justice recovered Erich Rauguth not blameworthy Wednesday connected a complaint of failing to supply a enactment illustration aft a fatal clang successful Dawson City successful 2023.

Rauguth, of Dawson City, was astatine the instrumentality erstwhile the car helium was driving slammed into a gross connected Dome Road, adjacent the Moose Mountain skis hill, on the greeting of Oct. 29, 2023.

The collision killed Samanroop Bisla, 33, who was a rider successful the vehicle. Bisla's household and friends wept silently successful the assemblage portion the justice delivered his verdict connected Wednesday. 

In his decision, Territorial Court Judge John Phelps said the Crown failed to prove the complaint beyond a tenable doubt.

During trial, the tribunal heard that the RCMP serviceman who demanded the enactment illustration was antithetic from the 1 who collected the illustration astatine the detachment. 

In his decision, Phelps said the Crown could person worded the complaint broadly, alternatively of naming a peculiar officer, but didn't.

Rauguth primitively besides faced a complaint of impaired driving causing death, but the Crown dropped that complaint last September.