A 20-year-old man is dead following the second fatal crash near Rocky Mountain House in less than a week.
Police say a small car carrying three people on Monday drove through a stop sign and collided with a gravel truck’s loaded quad trailer at the Highway 11 and Highway 756 intersection about 10 kilometres west of town.
A 20-year-old man, who was a passenger in the car at the time, was pronounced dead on scene, while the car’s 20-year-old male driver was taken to hospital via ambulance and released shortly after.
A 17-year-old girl was taken via ambulance to hospital in Red Deer, and at press time was in stable condition.
The gravel truck’s 52-year-old driver was treated on scene.
Charges are pending in the incident, which is still being investigated by Rocky Mountain House RCMP and the Calgary Medical Examiner’s Office.
Names of the individuals involved haven’t been released.
A 15-year-old girl was killed in a separate incident southwest of Rocky Mountain House on Highway 752 last Friday, when the vehicle she was travelling in rolled before coming to rest on its roof. Police say they believe speed and alcohol were factors in that incident, which is also still under investigation.