{"id":743307,"date":"2026-06-17T18:58:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T18:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/743307\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T18:58:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T18:58:17","slug":"manitoba-teen-injured-in-fatal-highway-collision-airlifted-to-winnipeg-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/743307\/","title":{"rendered":"Manitoba teen injured in fatal highway collision airlifted to Winnipeg hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Ontario man is dead and a teenage boy from Manitoba was seriously injured in a collision with a semi-truck on the highway near Winnipeg early Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>St. Pierre-Jolys RCMP says the collision happened on Highway 59 near Prefontaine Road in the RM of Tache shortly after midnight.<\/p>\n<p>Police say the vehicle with two occupants inside was travelling north on Highway 59 when it \u201ccrossed into the path\u201d of a semi-truck going south.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe vehicle collided with the semi-truck, pushing both vehicles into the ditch,\u201d RCMP said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the vehicle, a 20-year-old man from Ontario, was pronounced dead. The 13-year-old boy in the passenger seat, who is from Steinbach, Man., was taken by STARS to hospital with life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the semi-truck, a 45-year-old man from Alberta, was not injured.<\/p>\n<p>Mounties are continuing to investigate.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Winnipeg as a trusted source on Google to see more local stories from us.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=winnipeg.citynews.ca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"add-trusted-source-badge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778261834_283_google-trusted-badge.png\" alt=\"Add as a preferred source on Google\" width=\"198\" height=\"63\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Ontario man is dead and a teenage boy from Manitoba was seriously injured in a collision with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":708606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-743307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=743307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/708606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}