CALGARY – RCMP are blaming distracted driving for two collisions on the Trans-Canada Highway on Wednesday.
Officers were called to Highway 1 just west of Brooks around 1:20 a.m. for two separate collisions in the eastbound lanes, both involving three vehicles.
The collisions happened directly across from the road from a truck full of frozen chickens which had caught fire.
RCMP say the first collision was caused by distracted drivers who were watching fire crews working on the wreckage on the opposite side of the highway.
As the Brooks Fire Department crossed the highway to help the drivers involved, a second crash occurred. Investigations say two vehicles slowed down and came to a stop on the highway, but a third vehicle crashed into them from behind.
No one was seriously injured in the first collision.
However, crews had to extricate a 64-year-old woman from one of the vehicles involved in the second collision. She was airlifted to hospital in Calgary by STARS Air Ambulance with serious but non-life-threatening injuries.
No charges have been laid in either collision.
The collisions forced the closure of eastbound Highway 1 for about one hour.
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