Three fatal collisions in 12 hours on Manitoba roads
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This article was published 04/01/2022 (1541 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
The turn of the year was a deadly one on Manitoba roads.
Manitoba RCMP announced Monday that officers responded to three separate fatal incidents in a 12-hour span on Dec. 31 and Jan. 1.
The first came around 4:25 p.m. on Dec. 31, with a two-vehicle collision on the westbound lane of Highway 1 west of Alexander in the RM of Whitehead.
A pickup truck operated by a 43-year-old man from the RM of Wallace-Woodworth collided with another vehicle being driven by a 64-year old woman from Sioux Valley Dakota Nation.
While the woman was transported to hospital with serious but non-life threatening injuries, the 56-year-old male passenger from the same community in her vehicle was pronounced dead on scene. The pickup truck driver was not injured.
Approximately six and a half hours later, Dauphin RCMP attended to the scene of another two-vehicle collision on Highway 10, four kilometres south of the city of Dauphin in the RM of Dauphin.
An investigation revealed that a northbound SUV hit another northbound vehicle, sending it into a ditch and causing it to roll.
The driver of that vehicle, a 35-year-old man from St. Theresa Point First Nation, was ejected from the vehicle and pronounced dead on scene. The 70-year-old man driving the SUV from the RM of Dauphin was taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Then, at approximately 2:45 a.m. on Jan 1, Berens River RCMP responded to a report of a single-vehicle rollover near the bridge on the community’s main road.
Police believe the vehicle was headed southbound on the road when the 22-year-old male driver lost control, driving off of the embankment and rolling onto the ice. He was ejected from the vehicle and pronounced dead on scene.
Manitoba RCMP continue to investigate all three fatal collisions with the aid of forensic collision reconstructionists.
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