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A spokesperson for the Medicine Hat Police Service confirmed a senior pedestrian was killed in a motor vehicle collision. Eli J. Ridder/CHAT News

Medicine Hat police confirm 82-year-old woman killed in collision

Aug 28, 2024 | 2:53 PM

An 82-year-old female pedestrian was killed the motor vehicle collision that occurred in a south end neighbourhood of Medicine Hat last week, a police spokesperson told CHAT News on Wednesday.

An investigation is still ongoing but no charges are anticipated, they added.

Emergency services swarmed to the scene of a fatal collision in the Meadowlands neighbourhood of Medicine Hat on Aug. 23.

Eli J. Ridder/CHAT News

Police initially closed a section of Southview Drive Southeast between Southview Court Southeast and Dunmore Road Southeast.

Nearly a dozen vehicles — including two fire trucks, at least six police units and an ambulance — were at the scene of a blocked-off stretch of Southview Drive Southeast.

A witness told CHAT News he saw people performing first aid on a senior person lying on the road. They added first responders arrived shortly at 7 p.m.