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Crash leaves 2 dead, 3 injured: New Brunswick RCMP

RCMP say that a crash on June 8, 2017 left two dead and three inured. File/Global News

New Brunswick RCMP say a fatal crash in Dugas, N.B. this weekend has killed two people and injured three.

According to police, a car occupied by three young men was heading southbound on Route 11 on Saturday when it rear-ended a car in front of it, sending it across the centre line.

The vehicle was then struck on its side by a car heading northbound.

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According to police, the three-car collision left the couple in the rear-ended vehicle, a 72-year-old man and a 57-year-old woman, dead at the scene.

One family, a man, a woman and a girl, was in the northbound car. All sustained serious injuries.

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They were transported to hospital with the girl eventually being airlifted to a hospital in Halifax.

Three young men were in the first vehicle which fled the scene. The car was later found in a gravel pit, burned.

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The driver of the car was later arrested, then released on a promise to appear.

None of the three men in that car was hurt.

RCMP say a collision reconstruction was at the scene. Their investigation is ongoing.

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