Third person dead after highway crash with Royal Canoe bass player, his partner

A third person involved in a highway collision that killed a Winnipeg musician and his partner has died in hospital, Manitoba RCMP say.

The 29-year-old man was a passenger in a southbound vehicle that collided head-on with another vehicle carrying Brendan Berg, 42, and Olivia Michalczuk, 31, around 3:30 p.m. on Canada Day, just north of Bowsman.

Berg was a bass player for Winnipeg indie pop band Royal Canoe.

RCMP previously said the 36-year-old man driving the southbound vehicle and his passenger, both from Swan River, were transported to hospital with critical injuries. Police announced the second man’s fatality in news release Thursday.

The southbound driver, now the only person to have survived the collision, remains in hospital in stable condition, police said.

An investigation is ongoing.