Peter Shokeir | [email protected]
A Calgary man has died following a collision between a passenger vehicle and a semi on Highway 16, approximately one kilometre west of Jasper House.
On Feb. 20 at around 12:15 a.m., Jasper RCMP responded with Jasper Fire Department, Hinton RCMP and EMS to the head-on collision.
Police say an eastbound semi and west bound passenger vehicle collided head on.
At the time, roads had been icy and white out conditions were present.
Damage to the passenger vehicle hampered efforts to extract the driver and a lone occupant by witnesses and arriving first responders.
Jasper Fire Department had to use mechanical means to extricate the driver who was then taken by EMS to an area hospital and then transferred to a hospital in Edmonton.
The driver, a 38-year-old male from Calgary, was pronounced deceased in hospital.
Police did not release the name of the deceased.
The driver of the semi-tractor trailer was not physically injured.
Traffic was restored to one-lane altering while the scene was investigated and cleaned up over several hours.
Police continue to investigate the collision, and the Edmonton office of the Chief Medical Examiner has scheduled an autopsy, but no further updates are anticipated.
