By Voice Staff
Two men were killed in a multi-vehicle accident last Friday on the road to Roland.
Emergency crews were called to the scene just north of the intersection at Highway 428 and Road 19 North in the RM of Roland around 7:30 p.m. on March 6.
RCMP say two trucks had stopped on the southbound highway lane to assist a man who had driven his car off the road and into the ditch.
As this was occurring, a 17-year-old woman driving south didn’t immediately recognize the trucks were stopped on the road. She swerved to miss the truck that was in her lane, but clipped one of the stopped trucks, went off the highway, and hit the back of the car that was already in the ditch.
The two men who had been standing in the ditch—the 44-year-old owner of the first car and a 73-year-old from one of the trucks—were injured in the collision and died.
The female driver and her passenger, also a 17-year-old female, were taken to Boundary Trails Health Centre as a precaution, but no other injuries were reported.
Road conditions were described as icy at the time of the collision, RCMP report.
