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Seven dead after crash on Hwy 63 | CTV News very sad news
Seven dead after crash on Hwy 63
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Seven now?....last I heard it was 6 and 3 air lifted...geez. When I go back south I'm going 881 !! That Highway is just nuts at times.
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WANDERING RIVER, Alta. - Seven people were killed and two injured in "horrific" head-on collision on one of Alberta's deadliest highways.
The crash between happened Friday afternoon when a pickup truck going north on Highway 63 pulled out to pass another vehicle, colliding with another pickup travelling south.
"There was a significant fire as a result of the impact," said Const. Christina Wilkins of Fort McMurray RCMP.
Passing motorists pulled a teenaged girl from the pickup that had been passing, say police. She was airlifted to a hospital in Edmonton, but died a few hours later from her injuries.
A young boy and a 34-year-old man were also airlifted to Edmonton hospitals. Their conditions are not known, and the identities and hometowns of the dead and injured have not been released.
It was snowing in the area at the time of the crash on the two-lane, undivided highway.
"There was some reduced visibility," Wilkins said, adding weather was still bad late Friday.
"We ask that people please be careful when they're travelling south of Fort McMurray, given the weather and the road conditions are still unfavourable."
Six people were in one of the pickups, while three were in the truck that had tried to pass.
RCMP say Highway 63 will not reopen for at least another five hours, and traffic continues to be re-routed to Secondary Highway 881.
Two years ago, volunteer firefighters from Wandering River stopped responding to accidents on the highway because they found the work overwhelming.
In 2011, the provincial government and Athabasca County invested $1.3 million to hire more emergency responders to cover the route.
The highway is a busy route stretching north of Edmonton to Fort McMurray and north to the oilsands, where thousands of people work and tonnes of material and equipment moves daily.
Between 2001 and 2005, more than 1,000 crashes killed 25 people and injured 257 others on the highway.
In 2006, after years of public pressure, the Alberta government announced that it would twin a 240-kilometre stretch of the road. As of October 2009, 16 kilometres had been twinned.
The crash between happened Friday afternoon when a pickup truck going north on Highway 63 pulled out to pass another vehicle, colliding with another pickup travelling south.
"There was a significant fire as a result of the impact," said Const. Christina Wilkins of Fort McMurray RCMP.
Passing motorists pulled a teenaged girl from the pickup that had been passing, say police. She was airlifted to a hospital in Edmonton, but died a few hours later from her injuries.
A young boy and a 34-year-old man were also airlifted to Edmonton hospitals. Their conditions are not known, and the identities and hometowns of the dead and injured have not been released.
It was snowing in the area at the time of the crash on the two-lane, undivided highway.
"There was some reduced visibility," Wilkins said, adding weather was still bad late Friday.
"We ask that people please be careful when they're travelling south of Fort McMurray, given the weather and the road conditions are still unfavourable."
Six people were in one of the pickups, while three were in the truck that had tried to pass.
RCMP say Highway 63 will not reopen for at least another five hours, and traffic continues to be re-routed to Secondary Highway 881.
Two years ago, volunteer firefighters from Wandering River stopped responding to accidents on the highway because they found the work overwhelming.
In 2011, the provincial government and Athabasca County invested $1.3 million to hire more emergency responders to cover the route.
The highway is a busy route stretching north of Edmonton to Fort McMurray and north to the oilsands, where thousands of people work and tonnes of material and equipment moves daily.
Between 2001 and 2005, more than 1,000 crashes killed 25 people and injured 257 others on the highway.
In 2006, after years of public pressure, the Alberta government announced that it would twin a 240-kilometre stretch of the road. As of October 2009, 16 kilometres had been twinned.
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It really dosnt surprise me i lived on that highway for 38 years you should see the ass clowns that travel this highway scraped up my fair share will the fire department
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Very sad...And Boost...THANKS for doing your part buddy!!
So glad my sister and family have moved from Mc Murray
So glad my sister and family have moved from Mc Murray
teeroy
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RIP and condolences to the families.
running that highway is like a lottery of death in a small vehicle.
running that highway is like a lottery of death in a small vehicle.
Cat401
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Why was there only 16km paved in three years???
teeroy
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bureaucracy
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09 arctic cat m8
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just crazy
Ya really betcha the original hiway was built quicker than 3 years
the_real_wild1
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Very sad. Even more sad that the amount of money coming out of that place that more has not been done to that highway.
thunder44
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Very sad news. Thoughts and prayers for all involved
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Bcz people give a sh*t... Well, MOST with a shred of human decency do, anyway.
MissAtlantic
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Let's hope that the letter gets read by the right ppl and something gets put into the works! For all those who travel on Highway 63!!
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this hiway has always been dangerous but is had settled down for a bit, now that it is starting to get busier up here it is getting back to what it used to be. there is 44km ready to be paved but when that will happen is unknown to me. I sure hope that allison redford will give back the funding that she just took away for the project.
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