MAUGERVILLE, N.B. – A 19-year-old man is dead and two others are injured after a head-on collision involving a garbage truck on Route 105 in Maugerville, N.B. near Fredericton.
The RCMP said the man was from Onslow, Nova Scotia, and was travelling west when it collided with a Fero garbage truck headed east. He passed away at the scene.
The accident happened shortly after 9 a.m. The passenger in the truck and the driver of the garbage truck were both taken to hospital with serious but non-life threatening injuries.
An RCMP reconstructionist spent the afternoon on scene, and the route was closed all afternoon. It reopened early Monday evening.
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The name of the deceased is not being released at this time pending proper notification of his family.
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