Two people are dead after a pair of crashes on Saskatchewan highways in recent days.
On Friday at about 3:40 a.m., the White Butte RCMP was told of a crash at the intersection of Highway 6 and Industrial Drive just north of Regina.
At the scene, officers found a car had hit a pole. A 37-year-old man from the Piapot First Nation — the driver and sole occupant of the car — was pronounced dead at the scene.
The White Butte RCMP is investigating the crash with the assistance of a Saskatchewan RCMP collision reconstructionist.
On Sunday at around 8 p.m., the Rose Valley RCMP was called about a collision on Highway 35, approximately six kilometres north of Rose Valley. A pickup truck carrying three people and a farm tractor hauling a trailer had collided.
A 78-year-old woman from Sylvania who was a passenger in the truck was killed in the crash. A child who was in the truck was taken to hospital with serious injuries, while the man who was driving suffered non-life-threatening injuries.
The driver of the tractor wasn’t hurt.
The investigation is continuing.