Mounties say the teens’ car crashed into a semi-trailer because they didn’t stop at a stop sign
The RCMP say that on Wednesday night, a car with five teens in it ran a stop sign and crashed into a semi-trailer in southwestern Manitoba. Four of the teens died and one was seriously hurt.
At the scene of the accident, the two 17-year-old boys and the 18-year-old man driving the car were pronounced dead. Police say that they were all from the Dauphin, Man., area. A woman from Carberry, Manitoba, who was 18 years old, was taken to the hospital, where she was later pronounced dead.
In a news release on Thursday, the RCMP said that a 15-year-old girl from the rural municipality of Dauphin was taken to the hospital with serious injuries. She is still there.
Mounties said they got a lot of calls about the crash at the intersection of Highway 5 and Provincial Road 274 near Gilbert Plains, Man., just before 11 p.m. on Wednesday.
The first investigation showed that the teens’ car was going north on Provincial Road 274 into Gilbert Plains when it didn’t stop at a stop sign and hit the semi’s trailer, which was going east on Highway 5.
RCMP said that the 30-year-old man from Saskatoon who was driving the semi was not hurt.
With the help of an RCMP forensic collision reconstructionist, the police said their investigation into the crash is still going on.
About 275 kilometers northwest of Winnipeg is the town of Gilbert Plains.