HALIFAX – Police confirm a six-year-old boy injured in a major crash in Hants County has died in hospital.
The boy was one of five people injured in the multiple-vehicle crash on Highway 101, near Falmouth, late Tuesday morning.
The boy was airlifted to the IWK Hospital, in Halifax, as was an eight-year-old girl who remains in hospital in stable condition. A 38-year-old mother, who was driving the minivan involved in the crash, and a three-year-old child were also injured.
Both have been released from Hants Community Hospital, in nearby Windsor.
RCMP have charged a 59-year-old transport truck driver, from Montreal, with dangerous operation of a motor vehicle causing death.
Police said the tractor trailer he was driving slammed into the back of the minivan, which was just beginning to move forward at a construction site.
The minivan collided with a motor home towing a car.
The driver and passenger of the motor home were uninjured.
The tractor trailer driver was injured in the crash, but he has since been released from hospital.
He will appear in court at a later date.
*With files from Natasha Pace
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