Melita woman killed in highway crash
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A 69-year-old Melita woman was killed in a collision involving a semi-trailer on the Trans-Canada Highway near Brandon on Monday.
Blue Hills RCMP responded to the collision west of Brandon at the Kemnay turnoff at around 10:10 a.m.
The woman, who was driving north in an SUV, tried to cross the highway when she was hit by a semi-trailer travelling east, RCMP said in a news release on Monday afternoon.
RCMP investigate the scene of a fatal collision on the Trans-Canada Highway near the Kemnay turnoff on Monday afternoon. (Tim Smith/The Brandon Sun)
The driver of the semi-trailer was uninjured, police said.
The eastbound lanes on the Trans-Canada Highway were closed for several hours while Mounties investigated the scene.
At around 1:30 p.m. a grey SUV, with the front driver’s side crushed, sat on the median of the highway. Multiple RCMP officers were on scene directing traffic and examining the SUV.
A Full-Tilt Towing and Transport truck was on scene, in front of a semi-trailer with its driver’s-side tire off the rim.
Melita Mayor Bill Holden told the Sun he had heard about the collision on the news but didn’t know the identity of the woman. He said chances are, it’s someone he knows.
As of 2021, the Town of Melita had a population of just more than 1,000 people.
“It’s always devastating when you lose somebody — doesn’t matter if it’s a small town or not, it’s always devastating news,” he said.
» sanderson@brandonsun.com