A Winnipeg woman is dead after her vehicle collided with the rear of a semi-truck following an attempted traffic stop by RCMP on the outskirts of the city Wednesday.
Winnipeg police officers were called to the collision at Centreport Canada Way and the Perimeter Highway at about 4:45 p.m., where they found as a silver sedan trapped beneath the rear end of a tractor-trailer.
Mounties were already at the scene.
The Winnipeg Police Service said Thursday an RCMP officer had activated their emergency lights in an attempt to pull over the sedan before the woman collided with the truck a “short time later.”
The woman, 26, was rushed to hospital but died of her injuries.
The collision occurred in the highway’s westbound lanes, roughly one kilometre west of Sturgeon Road.
The front end of the sedan was destroyed in the collision.
The tractor-trailer, a Bison Transport truck, appeared relatively intact.
WPS traffic officers are assisting the province’s law enforcement oversight agency, the Independent Investigation Unit, with the investigation.
The IIU investigates all incidents involving police that result in death or serious injury.
Police have asked anyone with information, including video or dash camera footage, to call the IIU at 1-844-667-6060.
The Wednesday collision is the second fatality on the Perimeter Highway in less than a week.
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