Woman, 26, dead after vehicle collides with semi-truck

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A Winnipeg woman is dead after her vehicle collided with the rear of a semi-truck following an attempted traffic stop by RCMP on the outskirts of the city Wednesday.

Winnipeg police were called to the collision at Centreport Canada Way and the Perimeter Highway at about 4:45 p.m., where they found a silver Honda Civic trapped beneath the rear end of a tractor-trailer.

Mounties were already at the scene.

The Winnipeg Police Service said Thursday an RCMP officer had activated their emergency lights in an attempt to pull over the sedan before the woman collided with the truck a “short time later.”

The woman, 26, was rushed to the Health Sciences Centre but died of her injuries.

WPS traffic officers are assisting the province’s law enforcement oversight agency, the Independent Investigation Unit, with the investigation.

The IIU investigates all incidents involving police that result in death or serious injury.

The Mountie had observed the woman’s vehicle travelling at 107 kilometres per hour in a 70 km/h zone when it attempted to pull over the sedan, the IIU said in a news release Thursday.

The woman sped up and drove through a red light at the intersection of Centreport and Sturgeon Road before colliding with the semi.

The collision occurred in the highway’s westbound lanes, roughly one kilometre west of Sturgeon.

The front end of the sedan was destroyed in the collision.

The tractor-trailer, a Bison Transport truck, appeared relatively intact.

Police have asked anyone with information, including video or dash camera footage, to call the IIU at 1-844-667-6060.

The Wednesday collision is the second fatality on the Perimeter in less than a week.

A man in his 20s was killed early Tuesday after three pickup trucks and a semi-trailer crashed at the Perimeter and Highway 15. RCMP say speed was a factor in the crash.

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