Man dead after being ejected from vehicle in Queens County crash

A 31-year-old man from Digby County has died following a single-vehicle collision early Friday morning.

Nova Scotia RCMP say the crash on Highway 103 in Port Mouton, N.S. – about 20 kilometres southwest of Liverpool – was reported just before 5 a.m.

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Officers arrived to find an injured man in the passenger seat and a deceased man who had been ejected from the vehicle and was on the ground near the car.

The passenger of the vehicle was sent to hospital non-life-threatening injuries, according to police.

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The section of road was closed while police conducted their investigation, but it’s since reopened.

Police believe the vehicle left the roadway, struck some trees, then came to a stop in the ditch.