Highway 1A near Gleneagles Drive in Cochrane has re-opened following a collision on Thursday morning.
The road was cleared at around 12:10 p.m., 511 Alberta reported on Twitter. Both east and westbound lanes of the highway were affected.
Video from Global 1 appeared to show a cube van and another vehicle with severe damage.
In a news release, RCMP said four vehicles that were heading west tried to stop with traffic and the first three “were involved in minor rear-end collisions.”
RCMP said the fourth vheicle tried to avoid rear-ending the car ahead of it and “swerved into the eastbound lanes, colliding head-on with an eastbound Hyundai Elantra Sel.”
The person inside the Elantra was taken to a Calgary hospital with serious injuries. No one else was hurt, RCMP said.
— More to come
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