Two youths hurt in crash north of Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes

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Two youths were taken to hospital, one in critical condition, after a two-vehicle crash Monday morning.

RCMP were sent to the crash site on Provincial Road 244, near Road 41 North in the Municipality of Norfolk Treherne, at about 11:15 a.m. and found a semi-truck on the shoulder and a utility-task vehicle in a ditch.

The initial investigation determined the UTV, driven by a teen boy and with a male youth passenger inside, was headed north when the truck moved into the opposite lane to pass the slow-moving UTV.

The UTV made a sudden turn across the road in front of the truck and was hit by the semi, RCMP said in a news release Tuesday.

The driver of the UTV was flown to hospital in critical condition by STARS air ambulance, while the other youth was taken to hospital in serious but non-life-threatening condition. Their conditions have since been upgraded to stable, police said.

The crash site is roughly nine kilometres north of Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes.

Neither youth was wearing a seat belt or helmet, the release said.