Fatal collision on Manitoba highway currently under investigation
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Police say a southbound vehicle collided with a semi-trailer heading in the opposite direction on a Manitoba highway. One person was confirmed dead.
One person is dead following a fatal collision on a Manitoba highway on Thursday morning.
Officers with the Emerson RCMP detachment were called to a two-vehicle collision on Highway 75, one kilometre north of Letellier. They said a southbound vehicle entered the ditched and exited onto the northbound lane, where it then collided head-on with a northbound semi-trailer.
The driver of the southbound vehicle, a 35-year-old female from Winnipeg, was pronounced deceased on scene. The driver of the semi-trailer, a 33-year-old man from Springfield, Oregon, was taken to the hospital. He was later released.
An investigation is ongoing.