3 Prince County residents dead after 2 Friday single-vehicle crashes
Victims are a 22-year-old woman, 53-year-old man and a man in his 40s
Three people are dead and one person is seriously injured after two single-vehicle crashes Friday on P.E.I.
In a news release, RCMP said the first crash happened on Route 2 when a potato truck went off the road and overturned in Carleton, P.E.I.
Police said the driver and lone occupant of the truck was a Prince County man in his 40s.
RCMP, first responders and the Occupational Health and Safety department were called to the scene around 4:30 p.m. AT.
The road was closed for several hours, but has since reopened.
The second crash happened around 8 p.m. on Route 163 near Burleigh Road in East Bideford, P.E.I., RCMP said in a separate news release.
RCMP did not say what the circumstances were that led to the crash, but two passengers — a 22-year-old woman and a 53-year-old man, both from Prince County — were declared dead at the scene.
Police said a Prince County woman in her 20s who was also in the vehicle was taken to hospital with serious, but non-life threatening injuries.
Route 163 was closed for several hours, blocking access to Lennox Island before being reopened around 1:20 a.m. Saturday.
