Two people dead, three badly hurt after head-on highway crash in southeast Alberta

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BASSANO, Alta. - Two people are dead and three were sent to hospital after a head-on crash in southeast Alberta Tuesday night.

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This article was published 16/11/2023 (1029 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.

BASSANO, Alta. – Two people are dead and three were sent to hospital after a head-on crash in southeast Alberta Tuesday night.

RCMP say officers with the Bassano and Brooks detachments responded to a call about a two-vehicle crash on Highway 1 and Range Road 191.

Police say a truck with three occupants from Brooks was travelling westbound in the eastbound lanes when it hit an eastbound SUV carrying two people from Leduc.

The RCMP logo is seen outside Royal Canadian Mounted Police
The RCMP logo is seen outside Royal Canadian Mounted Police "E" Division Headquarters, in Surrey, B.C., on April 13, 2018. The Mounties are looking for a 15-year-old boy who fell off a fishing boat off a northern coast in New Brunswick. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

They say the 16-year-old driver of the SUV was sent to hospital with life-threatening injuries, while the 37-year-old female passenger was killed.

RCMP added that the 40-year-old driver of the truck and a passenger suffered life-threatening injuries while a 37-year-old passenger died.

An investigation into the crash is underway.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 16, 2023.

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