The RCMP logo is seen outside Royal Canadian Mounted Police “E” Division Headquarters, in Surrey, B.C., on Friday, April 13, 2018. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck)
A 59-year-old woman has died following a single-vehicle ATV collision in O-Pipon-Na-Piwin Cree Nation.
Manitoba RCMP responded to the crash on Airport Road at 5:55 p.m. on July 9. Officers arrived to find a group of people gathered around a seriously injured woman on the road, with an ATV in the ditch nearby.
Officers from South Indian Lake and paramedics from the Manitoba Wildfire Service, who had flown in from Leaf Rapids to assist, provided medical aid to the victim until a trauma helicopter arrived from Thompson.
The woman, from O-Pipon-Na-Piwin Cree Nation, died of her injuries at the scene. She was among the local essential workers who had remained in the community during the current evacuation order.
RCMP continue to investigate.
