Watch above: It was a tragic weekend on Saskatchewan highways with seven people killed in separate incidents including a construction zone pile-up that claimed three young lives and left a flag person in critical condition. Aaron Streck looks at workplace safety in light of that crash.
It has been a tragic weekend on Saskatchewan roads. Police say seven people were killed in four separate crashes and three others are in hospital, one in critical condition.
Three teens, all from Carrot River, Sask. were killed after a four-vehicle crash Sunday afternoon at a Highway 6 construction zone south of Spalding.
Police say the car the teens were in was hit from behind by a semi. The force of the collision pushed the car into a pickup, which then struck a flag person before slamming into another vehicle.
The flag person was taken by STARS to a Saskatoon hospital in critical condition.
READ MORE: Three teens dead in multi-vehicle crash at Highway 6 construction zone
Near Estevan, two people were killed in a fiery head-on crash on Highway 18 Sunday morning.
Mounties say an eastbound vehicle on Highway 18 entered the westbound lane and hit a semi. The vehicle then burst into flames.
READ MORE: 2 people dead after fiery crash near Estevan
Also on Sunday morning, 16-year-old girl was killed after a truck rolled on grid road 738 north of Swift Current.
Two other teens in the truck were transported by STARS to a Saskatoon hospital with serious injuries.
READ MORE: Teen dead in rollover on Saskatchewan grid road
On Saturday, a 20-year-old man was killed after being thrown from a vehicle that rolled on the Okanese First Nation. Two other people were treated for non-life threatening injuries.
Police say alcohol may have been a factor.
READ MORE: Alcohol suspected in fatal rollover on Okanese First Nation
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