{"id":326289,"date":"2025-12-05T04:27:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T04:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/326289\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T04:27:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T04:27:16","slug":"sherwood-park-senior-killed-in-collision-with-school-bus-near-millet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/326289\/","title":{"rendered":"Sherwood Park senior killed in collision with school bus near Millet"},"content":{"rendered":"

A man from Sherwood Park died in a collision with a school bus south of Edmonton on Thursday morning.<\/p>\n

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RCMP from Wetaskiwin responded just before 8 a.m. to the head-on collision between the bus and an SUV on Highway 814 at Township Road 480, near Millet.<\/p>\n

Officers arrived to find the man driving the SUV had died on scene. He has been identified as a 70-year-old man who lived in Sherwood Park.<\/p>\n

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The school bus had five people inside it: the driver and four students. None of them were injured in the collision.<\/p>\n

Although the investigation into the cause is ongoing, RCMP said poor road conditions are believed to have been a contributing factor.<\/p>\n

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The temperature in that area of Wetaskiwin County hovered right around freezing overnight and a mix of rain and snow began falling in the morning.<\/p>\n

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The highway was closed for about four hours as\u00a0RCMP were on scene investigating. The scene has since cleared and normal traffic flow has resumed.<\/p>\n

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