The driver of a vehicle that struck and killed three boys just north of Nelson House over the weekend is facing multiple charges.

27-year-old Todd Norman Linklater has been charged with three counts each of impaired operation causing death, impaired operation over 80mg% causing death and failing to remain at the scene of accident.

RCMP were called Saturday night after receiving a report that three boys from Nelson House, two 11-year-olds and a 13-year-old, had been struck and killed by a vehicle on Provincial Road six-20 just north of the community.

Linklater exited the vehicle following the collision to flee the scene on foot.

He turned himself in to the Nelson House RCMP detachment an hour and a half later. 

He is scheduled to appear in Thompson Provincial Court today.