A man died of his injuries in a Calgary hospital on Thursday after his car left the road and rolled into a creek.
RCMP say the man was driving on Main Street at Nose Creek Park when his vehicle went out of control, crashed through a fence and ended up upside down in the water.
Firefighters rescued the unconscious man from the vehicle and he was rushed in life-threatening condition to hospital in Calgary, where he later died.
RCMP can’t say whether speed was a factor but say the weather definitely was.
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“Road conditions were icy and snow packed and there was blowing snow at the time,” says Cst. Jason Curtis.
The road was closed for several hours while RCMP, including a collision reconstructionist, investigated.
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The crash was one of dozens on highways and roads in and around Calgary as a spring snowstorm hit parts of southern Alberta.
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