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Lake Echo crash kills young woman, sends two children to hospital

Halifax RCMP are investigating fatal single vehicle collision in Lake Echo, NS. File / Global News

A 24-year-old woman from East Jeddore is dead and two children are in hospital after a vehicle left a highway and crashed into a ditch.

Halifax RCMP say the single-vehicle accident happened just after 7 p.m. Sunday between Exits 18 and 19 on Highway 107 in Lake Echo.

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The 24-year-old woman died at the scene.

Two boys, aged 9 and 13, were taken to the IWK Health Centre in Halifax with non-life threatening injuries.

The cause of the fatal collision is under investigation.

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