A 68-year-old woman from Quebec is dead and four other people are in hospital after a serious crash between an SUV and a truck on the afternoon of June 9, RCMP announced today.
In a release, Virden said they got called to the scene of the crash at the intersection highway 83 and provincial road 257 in the RM of Wallace-Woodworth at about 5:30 PM. When they arrived on scene, they found a SUV heavily damaged and a truck further down the road on its side on highway 83, with EMS tending to occupants in the SUV.
Police said the SUV with four occupants, was headed west on provincial road 257 and then stopped at a stop sign as it approached highway 83. The SUV then proceeded across the highway when it was struck by the truck on the rear driver’s side. One of the SUV’s passengers, the 68-year-old woman from Quebec, was pronounced dead at the scene. The other three people in the SUV, a 45-year-old female driver from Saskatchewan and two other occupants also from Quebec, aged 20, and 47, were taken to hospital.
The driver and two other passengers of the truck were not seriously injured. According to police, however, another passenger (a 19-year-old man from Winkler) did have to be taken to hospital with a serious injury.
Police added in their release that they do not believe alcohol to be a factor in the crash.
