STONEY NAKODA— Identities of the two deceased people involved in a fatal vehicle collision on Highway 1 on Wednesday (Aug. 11) have been determined by RCMP, who have notified next of kin.
A 78-year-old male and 75-year-old female from B.C.’s Columbia Valley were pronounced dead on scene after a multi-vehicle collision in the late morning, involving a car, two cube vans and a semi-truck.
According to RCMP, the white car driven by the elderly couple was heading west when an eastbound cube van crossed over the highway meridian, west of Morley Road, striking the white car head-on. Unable to stop in time, a westbound semi-truck then rear-ended the car and another cube van driving west subsequently hit the semi from behind.
A 50-year-old man from Sherwood Park, Alta. was operating the eastbound cube van with a 27-year-old male passenger from Winnipeg, Man. and the semi-truck driver was a 55-year-old man from Calgary. Both occupants of the eastbound cube van as well as the driver of the westbound cube van were transported to Foothills Medicals Centre by ambulance with non-life-threatening injuries.
Cochrane RCMP collision analysts are still investigating the cause of the initial head-on collision.
