Sunday winter blast ices Calgary roads
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Several centimetres of snow fell late Saturday night in Calgary and into Sunday, making conditions on the city's busiest road corridors slick.
Several centimetres of snow fell late Saturday night in Calgary and into Sunday, making conditions on the city's busiest road corridors slick.
On Deerfoot Trail, two separate crashes had traffic at a crawl.
A car had been involved in a collision in the middle lanes near 130th Ave SE, northbound, with tow trucks and emergency personnel directing traffic through the outside lanes.
A little further down, north of Southland Drive, a cargo-passenger van had left Deerfoot Trail, crashing into a chain link fence at the bottom of a ditch, rolling onto its side. No injuries were reported.
Chris McGeachy with the city's roads department says crews have been clearing priority routes such as Crowchild, Glenmore Trails, and Memorial Drive.
"The biggest factor for people's commutes right now is going to be temperature," he said.
"We do have crews working 24/7 through the winter, and they have been tackling this storm and now they're focused on major routes."
