RCMP investigate two separate fatal collisions

December 2, 2021
Winnipeg, Manitoba

News release

On December 1, 2021, at approximately 7:15 pm, Beausejour RCMP responded to a vehicle versus pedestrian collision on Highway 44 in the RM of Brokenhead.

A truck, driven by a 61-year-old male, was travelling on Highway 44 when a couch he was transporting fell out. The driver stopped and was attempting to retrieve the couch from the middle of the road when he was struck by an oncoming vehicle, driven by a 23-year-old male from the RM of Springfield.

The 61-year-old male from Oakbank was pronounced deceased at the scene.

The driver of the other vehicle was not physically injured.

Alcohol was not a factor in the collision.

Beausejour RCMP, along with a Forensic Collision Reconstructionist and our Criminal Collision Investigation Team, continue to investigate.

On December 1, 2021, at approximately 7:20 pm, Oakbank RCMP, along with Springfield Police Service, responded to a collision involving a cyclist on Highway 12, near the intersection of Highway 15, in the RM of Springfield.

A vehicle, driven by a 41-year-old female from the RM of Springfield, was travelling on Highway 12, when it collided with a cyclist.

The 77-year-old male cyclist from Anola was pronounced deceased at scene.

The driver was not physically injured.

Alcohol was not a factor in the collision.

Oakbank RCMP and Springfield Police Service, along with a Forensic Collision Reconstructionist and our Criminal Collision Investigation Team, continue to investigate.

Dark road conditions are considered a factor in both instances.

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Contact information

Cpl. Julie Courchaine, Media Relations Officer
RCMP Media Relations
204-983-8497

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File number: 2021-1795226/2021-1795238

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