(THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck)
A 20-year-old man from Ontario is dead following a head-on collision with a semi-truck on Highway 59 early Wednesday morning.
St. Pierre-Jolys RCMP responded to the two-vehicle crash near Prefontaine Road in the RM of Tache at around 12:21 a.m.
Police say a vehicle carrying two occupants was travelling north on Highway 59 when it crossed into the path of a semi-truck travelling south. The vehicle collided with the semi-truck, pushing both vehicles into the ditch.
The driver was pronounced deceased at the scene.
A 13-year-old male passenger from Steinbach was transported by STARS to a Winnipeg hospital with serious, life-threatening injuries.
The driver of the semi-truck, a 45-year-old man from Alberta, wasn’t injured.
Manitoba RCMP continue to investigate.
