CARLYLE, Sask. – A 61-year-old man is dead after his tractor-trailer crashed into a slough in southern Saskatchewan.
Carlyle RCMP said the tractor-trailer hauling grain overturned at 6:30 a.m. Friday.
The driver, from Spy Hill, Sask., was pronounced dead at the scene. According to police, there was sleet and snow falling at the time of the crash.
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Police said there was also a separate collision when two pickup trucks stopped to help the driver of the tractor-trailer. A separate tractor-trailer then hit the two empty trucks. No one was injured in that crash.
The grain was emptied and hauled away by a local farmer.
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