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.
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.