Icy roads and freezing rain were a factor in a fatal collision near Bonnyville that killed a 25-year-old man from Edmonton on Tuesday morning. Read More
”The collision occurred near a curve in the road, and weather conditions certainly played a factor”
“The collision occurred near a curve in the road, and weather conditions certainly played a factor”
Icy roads and freezing rain were a factor in a fatal collision near Bonnyville that killed a 25-year-old man from Edmonton on Tuesday morning.
At 6:40 a.m. Bonnyville RCMP, MD Bonnyville public safety peace officers and medical crews responded to a motor vehicle collision on Township Road 640, near Range Road 462, north of La Corey, police said in an interview with Postmedia.
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Police said the collision involving a pick-up truck and a semi-truck closed the roads in the area for several hours while officers investigated the crash.
“The collision occurred near a curve in the road, and weather conditions certainly played a factor,” said Alberta RCMP Cpl.. Mathew Howell on Tuesday.
While police determined that weather conditions were the contributing cause of the collision, Howell did confirm that impairment wasn’t a factor in the collision.
Police said the driver of the semi-truck wasn’t injured in the collision.
La Corey is approximately 260 km northeast of Edmonton.
It’s been a deadly few days across the highways in central Alberta. On Friday, a 61-year-old woman from Seba Beach died in a multi-vehicle collision with a semi-tractor trailer unit that involved at least a dozen other vehicles and injured five others.
Also, a nine-year-old girl died in a two-vehicle collision at the intersection of Highway 36 and Highway 13, just east of Killam.
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Alberta RCMP also confirmed that one person died in a collision between a Red Arrow transport bus and a vehicle near Redwater on Friday.
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