A man was killed in a highway crash after he drove past a road block and slammed into a parked fire truck at a crash scene northeast of Edmonton. The fatal collision happened just before 1330 hours last Friday on Highway 45 near the town of Hairy Hill.
Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), Paramedics and County of Two Hills Firefighters were assessing a tractor trailer that had hit the south ditch and rolled. The truck was carrying two full propane tanks, but there were no leaks, and the driver wasn’t seriously hurt.
Firefighters and RCMP had closed the highway in both directions, but a passenger van sped past the road block toward the collision scene, hitting an unoccupied fire truck -with flashing warning lights, positioned to block and/or divert traffic.
