A 70-year-old woman is dead after a vehicle rear-ended hers while she was parked partially on a highway shoulder in the rural municipality of West. St. Paul on Monday.
RCMP responded to reports of a two-vehicle crash on Highway 8 near Grassmere Road shortly before 1 p.m.
Police say the 70-year-old driver was stopped and partially on the gravel shoulder of southbound Highway 8 when another driver collided with her vehicle.
The woman was pronounced dead at the scene, RCMP said in a Tuesday news release. The other driver, a 21-year-old man from West. St. Paul, was taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
RCMP continue to investigate and ask anyone with dash camera video of the incident to contact the Red River North detachment at 204-667-6519.