Three adults and one child were rushed to hospital after several collisions in Leduc County, south of Edmonton, on Thursday morning.
The first happened just before 6 a.m. at the intersection of Nisku Spine Road and 35th Avenue.
Leduc RCMP believe a southbound car, driven by a 24-year-old man, turned left into the path of a northbound vehicle, driven by a 56-year-old man.
Both men are residents of Edmonton, RCMP said.
They were both taken to hospital. The 24-year-old man was in critical condition. The 56-year-old man sustained “unknown injuries,” RCMP said.
The collision scene was cleared by 10:30 a.m. The cause is being investigated.
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Then, just before 11 a.m., Leduc RCMP said emergency crews were responding to a collision on Highway 2A near Township Road 492, about one kilometres south of Leduc.
It’s believed a tanker truck heading south rear-ended an SUV at around 10:40 a.m.
The driver of the SUV, a 29-year-old woman from Leduc, was injured and taken by ambulance to a local hospital. The passenger of the SUV, a baby girl under the age of one, was flown by STARS Air Ambulance to hospital with life-threatening injuries but was later listed as stable, RCMP said.
The truck driver, a 74-year-old man from Leduc County, was assessed by emergency services on scene.
Traffic was reduced to one lane alternating in both directions to accommodate first responders. The scene was cleared by 4 p.m., RCMP said.
A longtime friend told Global News the 29-year-old woman is a mother of four who is in hospital, currently paralyzed from the waist down. She said the baby is just four months old and is in an induced coma.
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