Man killed, another injured in head-on crash with semi near Grande Prairie

A head-on collision east of Grande Prairie killed one local man and sent another to hospital Thursday evening.

RCMP said it happened at around 5 p.m. on the Forestry Trunk Road at the eight-kilometre mark near Debolt, where a pick-up truck collided head-on with a semi-truck.

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A 22-year-old man from Grande Prairie, who was a passenger in the pick-up truck, died.

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The 39-year-old man driving the pick-up, who was also from Grande Prairie, was flown via STARS Air Ambulance to the Queen Elizabeth II Hospital in Grande Prairie in life-threatening condition.

The man driving the semi-truck was not injured.

Police did not know the cause of the collision, which remains under investigation.

Debolt is about 55 kilometres east of Grande Prairie in northwestern Alberta.