The RCMP is investigating after a 55-year-old Calgary man died after he was found in an overturned snowplow east of Calgary Sunday morning.
According to Calgary EMS, paramedics were called to the scene on Highway 797, about two kilometres south of Highway 1, at 7:50 a.m. for reports of an overturned vehicle.
The daily email you need for
's top news stories.
EMS said fire crews worked to extricate a man in his 50s who was trapped in the cab of the snowplow before he was rushed to Foothills Medical Centre in Calgary in life-threatening condition.
They said it is believed nobody witnessed the crash and that no other vehicles were involved.
Family members have been notified but the identity of the man has not been released.