
(THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck)
Brandon RCMP are investigating after a woman was struck by a taxicab as she laid on the Trans-Canada Highway west of the Wheat City on Wednesday.
Police say the collision happened at around 4:15 a.m. approximately two kilometres west of Brandon.
Emergency personnel attended and found the 30-year-old Brandon woman was lying in the middle of the westbound lane of traffic. She was pronounced deceased at the scene.
The 44-year-old Brandon man driving the taxi wasn’t injured.