Fatal collision on Manitoba highway currently under investigation

One person is dead following a fatal collision on a Manitoba highway on Thursday morning.

Officers with the Emerson RCMP detachment were called to a two-vehicle collision on Highway 75, one kilometre north of Letellier. They said a southbound vehicle entered the ditched and exited onto the northbound lane, where it then collided head-on with a northbound semi-trailer.

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The driver of the southbound vehicle, a 35-year-old female from Winnipeg, was pronounced deceased on scene. The driver of the semi-trailer, a 33-year-old man from Springfield, Oregon, was taken to the hospital. He was later released.

An investigation is ongoing.

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