Head-on collision kills female motorcyclist near Edmonton Garrison, charges pending – Edmonton
A driver is in custody and a girl in her 60s is lifeless after a head-on collision on the entrance of CFB Edmonton on Monday night.
RCMP mentioned two individuals on separate bikes have been driving north collectively on Freeway 28, when a northbound SUV forward of them made a U-turn and collided head-on with one of many riders. The opposite bike was not hit, RCMP mentioned.
The crash occurred round 6 p.m. on the intersection of Freeway 28 and Township Highway 544/Sturgeon Highway, which is the doorway to the Edmonton Garrison army base.
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Morinville RCMP, together with the army police from the bottom and EMS, responded to the two-vehicle collision.
The 62-year-old Edmonton lady who was hit was taken with life-threatening accidents by ambulance to an Edmonton hospital, the place police mentioned she died.
The 37-year-old man driving the SUV was detained by police, RCMP mentioned.
“Preliminary investigation means that driving impairment could also be a contributor this head-on collision,” RCMP mentioned, including a collision reconstructionist was referred to as to the scene — which police mentioned prolonged down the street from the intersection.
Scene of a deadly collision between a bike and SUV on Freeway 28 at Township Highway 544/Sturgeon Highway simply north of Edmonton on Monday, Might 23, 2022.
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The intersection was closed, with visitors being diverted east and west alongside Township Highway 544, and south of the collision at Anthony Henday Drive.
The street was anticipated to stay closed till early Tuesday morning.
RCMP Const. Patrick Lambert mentioned extra particulars could also be launched on Tuesday, as soon as costs are laid earlier than the provincial courts.
