Woman dead in motorcycle crash

A 70-year-old woman is dead after a motorcycle collided with a vehicle on a highway near Garson on Sunday night.

Officers learned a motorcycle travelling east on Highway 44 collided with a vehicle travelling north on Provincial Road 212 at about 8:30 p.m.

A passenger on the motorcycle, a woman from the Rural Municipality of Brokenhead, was pronounced dead at the scene.

The driver, a 66-year-old man from the RM of Brokenhead, was airlifted to hospital by STARS air ambulance with serious but non-life-threatening injuries.

The driver of the vehicle, a 19-year-old woman from Portage la Prairie, was not injured. She was taken to hospital as a precaution.

The investigation continues.