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KENTVILLE, N.S. —

A 37-year-old Kentville man has admitted to being impaired when he crashed his vehicle with a child inside last fall.

Cecil James Dominey pleaded guilty in Kentville provincial court Tuesday to impaired driving and assaulting a peace officer.

He is also facing charges of resisting arrest, uttering threats to two police officers, damaging a police vehicle and failing to remain at the scene of a collision. He did not enter a plea to those charges and it's expected the Crown will not proceed on those after he is sentenced on the other two counts.

Dominey was charged after an incident on Nov. 18 in Somerset, north of Berwick.

RCMP said at the time that they were called to a report of dangerous driving on Brooklyn Street just before 4:30 p.m.

The caller told police a driver of a van had nearly forced three vehicles off the road before hitting a trailer attached to the back of a truck and going off the road.

Dominey was leaving the area on foot with the child when RCMP arrived.

The officers noted signs of drug impairment.

Dominey and the child suffered minor injuries. The child was assessed and taken to hospital for further examination.

When he was placed under arrest he resisted the officers when they tried to take him into custody, police said in a release at the time.