Four dead in head-on collision on Highway 5

Four people died in a highway crash early Monday morning, said Neepawa RCMP.

Officers and emergency crews responded to a head-on collision involving two vehicles in the northbound lane of Highway 5, about four kilometres north of Highway 16, in the RM of Rosedale shortly after 12 a.m.

The driver of one vehicle, a 68-year-old woman, and a 70-year-old male passenger, both from Glenella-Lansdowne, died at the scene.

The driver of the second vehicle, a 19-year-old man, and a 20-year-old female passenger, both from Ebb and Flow First Nation, were also pronounced dead at the scene.

Factors in the crash have not yet been confirmed and it remains under investigation, said RCMP

Anyone with information about the collision can call the Neepawa RCMP at 204-476-7340 or call Crime Stoppers anonymously at 1-800-222-8477.

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  RCMP were called shortly after 12 a.m. on Nov. 2 to the head-on crash on Highway 5. (File)