One person is dead and another in hospital after two-vehicle collision on a northern Alberta highway early Tuesday morning.
In a news release issued shortly after 8 a.m., Spirit River RCMP said the collision occurred near the community of Webster, on Highway 2 between Township Road 750 and Township Road 760.
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Police said officers responded to the crash scene at 4:48 a.m.
“Initial investigation has indicated that a passenger car had a head-on collision with a vacuum truck,” the RCMP later said.
“Unfortunately, the driver and lone occupant of the car, identified as a 20-year-old male resident of Grande Prairie, was deceased at the scene.”
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Police said there were two people in the truck. One was taken to hospital with serious injuries but is expected to survive. The other occupant of the truck was not hurt.
RCMP officers remained at the scene for several hours for the initial phase of the investigation that saw a collision analyst arrive at the scene.
Webster is located about 30 kilometres north of Grande Prairie.
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