WINNIPEG – Slippery conditions are causing crashes and closing roads in Winnipeg and other parts of southern Manitoba Tuesday morning.
A vehicle flipped over and into a ditch in Charleswood at around 7:30 a.m., police said. One person was taken to hospital in serious condition. The crash closed Wilkes Avenue between Charleswood Road and Community Row close to the West Perimeter Highway.
A truck also went partly off a Fermor Avenue bridge at Plessis Road, affecting traffic there. Fermor was extremely slippery, as were other major Winnipeg routes.
A Twitter user reported two cars on the Corydon Avenue median at Oxford Street.
The Trans-Canada Highway was closed to semi-trailer trucks from West Hawk to the Ontario border from 6:30 a.m. until shortly after 10 a.m.
The Manitoba road report is showing slippery conditions on highways around Winnipeg, including partly ice-covered surfaces on the North Perimeter Highway from Highway 7 to Highway 15. Highways 7, 8, 9 and 59 near Winnipeg are also partly ice- and snow-covered. For complete highway information, go to the Manitoba government road report.
The Trans-Canada Highway is also partly ice-covered from Winnipeg city limits to Headingley and from Highway 13 to Portage la Prairie.
The Trans-Canada was closed east of West Hawk “due to poor weather and road conditions,” a Manitoba road information alert said.
Winnipeg was -2 C with light snow falling at 7 a.m. Flurries are expected to end this morning, the Environment Canada weather forecast says. Wind is from the north at 40 kilometres per hour gusting to 60 km/h. The high Tuesday is expected to reach 5 C, well below the seasonal normal of 13 C.
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