The absence of warning signs on a washed out Manitoba access road may have cost a man his life.
Emergency crews were dispatched to gravel Road 150, one half kilometre south of Highway 5, west of Grandview at approximately 2:00 p.m. Saturday.
RCMP said a grain truck was heading south when it ran into a section of washed out road, dropping approximately 15 to 20 feet.
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The 46-year-old male driver from the R.M. of Gilbert Plains was pronounced dead on scene.
Police reports indicated that warning signs may have been moved or displaced.
The reeve of the R.M. of Hillsburg told Global News Road 150 is a boundary road shared with the R.M. of Grandview. The R.M.’s alternate tending to the road each year and this year the responsibility is that of the R.M. of Grandview. Reeve Cliff Kutzan told Global News there was a barricade indicating a closed road put up earlier in the season due to a washed out culvert. Kutzan said he had no knowledge of the sign being displaced or moved and said the R.M. was waiting on the arrival of a new culvert before beginning work on repairing the road.
Grandview is approximately 375 kilometres north west of Winnipeg.
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