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By Connor Gunn/LethbridgeNewsNow

Fort Macleod RCMP investigating fatal collision

Mar 28, 2021 | 4:28 PM

FORT MACLEOD, AB– At approximately 7:00 pm on Mar. 27, 2021, Nanton RCMP received complaints of an “erratic driver.”

RCMP attempted to stop the vehicle with a traffic stop but the vehicle fled from RCMP at a “high rate of speed” towards Claresholm.

Around 7:45 pm, Fort MacLeod RCMP located the vehicle in the ditch on Highway 810, approximately 15 km south of Highway 3.

RCMP says the vehicle struck a power pole. Both occupants in the car had to be extracted from the vehicle by the Fort MacLeod Fire Department and EMS.

The driver had serious injuries and STARS Ambulance had to take the individual to Foothills Hospital in Calgary.

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RCMP says the passenger was declared deceased at the scene.

No further details will be provided at this time.

RCMP asks anyone who may have witnessed or has any information about this incident, to please contact the Fort MacLeod RCMP at 403-553-4406.