Highway crash west of Brandon kills one senior, critically injures another

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One Brandon senior has died and another was critically injured after a highway collision in the Rural Municipality of Whitehead on Saturday night.

Mounties responded to the two-vehicle crash at the intersection of Highway 1 and Provincial Road 250, about 25 kilometres west of Brandon, around 8:50 p.m. and found a truck and SUV resting in the centre median. Both vehicles were heavily damaged, Manitoba RCMP said in a news release Monday.

Investigators determined the two people were travelling in the SUV, which was headed southbound on PR 250 when it entered the intersection. The truck, travelling westbound on Highway 1, collided with the vehicle’s driver’s side, RCMP said.

Emergency services transported the 77-year-old woman driving the SUV, and a 78-year-old male passenger, to the hospital with critical injuries. The woman later died, while the man remains in hospital. Both were from Brandon, police said.

The 23-year-old female driver of the truck and her 20-year-old female passenger, both from Brandon, were not physically injured.

Alcohol is not believed to be a factor in the collision.

Brandon RCMP, along with an RCMP Forensic Collision Reconstructionist, continue to investigate.