Multiple fatalities in Minnedosa crash

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Published on Thursday, February 15, 2018

By Eoin Devereux

Neepawa Banner & Press

Three people are dead following a multi-vehicle accident just south of Minnedosa on Wednesday, Feb. 14. RCMP have confirmed that the collision took place about five kilometres south of the community on Highway 10 at around 5:25 p.m. 

On the scene reports indicate that two members of the Minnedosa RCMP were driving south on the highway in a marked police vehicle, when a small SUV headed in the opposite direction lost control and rolled into the southbound lane. The SUV first hit a vehicle that was directly in front of the police cruiser, and then struck the RCMP vehicle.

The occupants of the SUV, were identified as a 67-year-old female and a 51-year-old female, both from the R.M. of Glenella-Lansdowne. Both were pronounced dead at the scene and their names are not being released at this time.

There was one other fatality in the accident, a 56-year-old female passenger from Waywayseecappo, who was in the southbound car that was struck first. The three other occupants of that vehicle were taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries. As for the RCMP officers in the cruiser, neither were seriously injured.

In total, there were a total of six vehicles involved in the crash with three additional people sent to hospital with minor injuries. Road conditions are thought to have played a factor in the collision.