Deadly weekend for collisions
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This article was published 27/08/2013 (4601 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
WINNIPEG — A deadly crash that claimed the life of 17-year-old Avery Hall on Sunday night was the fifth fatality on Manitoba roads over the weekend.
At least nine other people were injured in crashes as well.
“It’s summertime, people are driving faster and partaking in social activities, so there’s a rise in collisions,” said Sgt. Line Karpish of the RCMP.
On Friday afternoon, a 14-year-old male cyclist from Waywayseecappo First Nation was pronounced dead in hospital after a collision with a vehicle on Highway 45.
On Saturday morning, the STARS air ambulance was in Westman after being called to an area near Belmont. A car travelling west on an unmarked road drove past a stop sign and was T-boned by a pickup truck going north.
The 44-year-old driver of the car was airlifted to Winnipeg with serious upper-body injuries. The driver of the pickup truck suffered minor injuries.
Two people were killed and four others injured after a head-on collision near Brunkild on Saturday afternoon.
A 22-year-old Winnipeg man was travelling north on Highway 3, about four kilometres south of Brunkild, when his vehicle drifted into the southbound lane, sideswiped one vehicle and collided head-on with the vehicle behind it, driven by a 48-year-old man from Hochfeld. Both drivers were killed.
Two young children and a woman were rushed to hospital by ambulance and another woman was flown to hospital in the Brunkild crash.
Shortly after 5 p.m. on Saturday, a 71-year-old woman died in a collision involving seven vehicles in Winnipeg.
A Ford Ranger was speeding north in the curb lane of McPhillips Street when it struck a Honda Ridgeline that was making an eastbound turn onto William Avenue from southbound McPhillips.
The Ranger then struck a Chevy Cobalt driven by a 71-year-old woman after which the Ranger then struck a Honda Civic. The driver of the Cobalt died in hospital of her injuries.
In all, seven vehicles were damaged in the collision and several people were transported to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Adam Quinn Langan, 29, of Winnipeg was arrested at the scene and has been charged with impaired driving causing death, two counts of impaired driving causing bodily harm and several other charges. He has been detained in custody.
Karpish attributes the accidents to speed and impaired driving. She said 40 per cent of these collisions are due to alcohol impairment.
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