Passenger killed, driver injured in vehicle rollover near Stead

One man is dead following a rollover near the community of Stead, Man.

Around 3:40 a.m. Sunday morning, Powerview and Selkirk RCMP responded to a report of a single-vehicle rollover on Provincial Road 304, about four kilometres east of Highway 59, near Old Stead Road, RCMP said in a news release.

When officers, along with firefighters and paramedics, arrived at the scene they learned that a SUV travelling east went off the road and into a ditch.

A 20-year-old male passenger from Black River First Nation died at the scene, RCMP said.

The driver, a 19-year-old male from Powerview-Pine Falls, was transported by air ambulance to hospital in Winnipeg with a non-life-threatening injury and has since been discharged.

RCMP are investigating the cause of the collision.