Three people in hospital after crash at Carberry interchange
CTV
Multiple emergency vehicles are on the scene of an incident on the Trans Canada Highway near the Carberry interchange.
Authorities are investigating a serious crash that happened Monday at the same spot where a bus crash claimed the lives of 17 people last month.
RCMP Manitoba says at 4:45 p.m. Monday evening they were called to a three vehicle collision on Highway 5 and Highway 1. They say a southbound pickup truck entered the Highway 1 intersection, colliding with an SUV travelling eastbound. That crash pushed the two vehicles across the highway and into a third vehicle which was waiting at a Highway 5 stop sign south of Highway 1.
STARS tells CTV News it transported a female patient in her 40s to Health Sciences Centre in critical condition. Two other people were taken to a local hospital. RCMP says the injuries are being considered serious.
RCMP say Highway 1 was partly closed for the safety of others and its ongoing investigation.
Monday's crash occurred at the same intersection where a passenger bus carrying Dauphin-area seniors collided with a semi-truck on June 15. That crash claimed the lives of 17 people.
“We very much appreciate that this may be extraordinarily upsetting for some people considering the recent mass casualty collision at the same intersection,” Inspector Lee Fortin of RCMP West District said in a statement.
