Water truck passenger killed in Highway 1 collision in Manitoba
Stuartburn man died when water truck rear-ended gravel truck east of Brandon, RCMP say
A 20-year-old man from Stuartburn died Tuesday morning after a water truck and a gravel truck collided on Highway 1 east of Brandon, RCMP say.
Blue Hills RCMP responded around 7:30 a.m. on July 22 to the crash near the intersection with Curries Landing Road about 11 kilometres east of Highway 10.
The gravel truck had been rear-ended by a water truck, police said.
The gravel truck was getting up to speed travelling eastbound after turning onto Highway 1 from Curries Landing Road, when it was struck from behind by the large truck hauling a water tank, RCMP said in a news release.
The 22-year-old driver of the water truck, from Tolstoi, suffered minor injuries from the collision. The 20-year-old man from Stuartburn who died at the scene was his passenger.
The 59-year-old male driver of the gravel truck, from the rural municipality of North Cypress-Langford, was not physically injured.
Everyone was wearing seatbelts at the time of the collision, police said.
Blue Hills RCMP and the RCMP criminal collision investigative team continue to investigate.