Fatal t-bone collision on Tsuu T’ina reserve

ABOVE WATCH: A horrific crash on the Tsuu T’ina killed a young man, and sent a young woman to hospital Monday morning. Global’s Sarah Offin reports.

CALGARY – One person was killed and another was seriously injured in a two vehicle crash southwest of Calgary on Monday.

Emergency crews were called to Bullhead Road on the Tsuu T’ina reserve around 6:30 a.m. for a t-bone collision between an SUV and a car.

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Firefighters were able to extricate the driver of the SUV from her vehicle. STARS Air Ambulance rushed the woman, in her late teens, to the Foothills Medical Centre in Calgary in serious but stable condition.

The driver of the car, 18-year-old Tsuu T’ina resident Hunter Bigplume, was pronounced dead at the scene.

Tsuu T’ina police requested an RCMP traffic reconstructionist to determine the cause of the collision. Police said speed and alcohol were factors in the crash.

With files from David Boushy and Alyssa Julie