A 36-year-old man from Calgary might be facing charges after a fiery dangerous driving incident near Cochrane early on Sunday.
RCMP said a vehicle was a “driving head-on toward oncoming vehicles” on Highway 22 north of Cochrane.
Because the man was driving dangerously, police pursued him “in the interest of public safety.”
Police said three oncoming vehicles “took evasive action” to avoid colliding with the suspect vehicle while a fourth vehicle, a semi-truck, tried to avoid a crash but the suspect vehicle clipped the side of the semi, hit the ditch, rolled and caught fire.
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RCMP said they responded immediately, noting that Alberta sheriffs were there to extinguish the fire.
Police pulled the driver out of the vehicle, and he was taken to a local hospital by EMS with non-life-threatening injuries.
No one else was injured, police said.
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