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1 dead, 2 injured in head-on crash in Fairview, northern Alberta

An Alberta RCMP vehicle. Kendra Slugoski, Global News (file)

RCMP in Fairview, a community in northwestern Alberta, are investigating a fatal collision involving two vehicles.

RCMP said two vehicles collided head-on in front of the police detachment at around 8:30 a.m. Wednesday.

RCMP said a passenger car was “travelling at a high rate of speed in a 30 km/h zone” when it hit a pickup truck pulling a trailer.

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St. Thomas More Catholic School is located nearby.

The driver of the car, a 30-year-old resident of Grande Prairie, died.

The two people inside the pickup truck, a 29-year-old woman and her one-year-old son, both residents of the Berwyn area, were airlifted to hospital with serious injuries.

Fairview is located approximately 115 kilometres north of Grande Prairie.

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