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Three people have died after a fatal crash closed Highway 28 on Thursday afternoon, north of Gibbons, Alta. according to a spokesperson for Sturgeon County.<\/p>\n
The highway was reopened on Friday morning, hours after RCMP closed the road in both directions to investigate the crash.<\/p>\n
In a news release, the RCMP said officers were called to a collision on Highway 28 between Range Road 233 and Highway 28A on Thursday afternoon. Traffic was rerouted through the town, located about 35 kilometres northeast of Edmonton.<\/p>\n
“It’s an incredible tragedy, but it also hits home for the people that live in the town of Gibbons,” said Tim Duhamel, interim chief administrative officer for the town.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He noted that incidents like this happen \u201cway too often” on Highway 28.<\/p>\n
Const. Sandra Geiger, an RCMP public information officer, told CBC News there were two vehicles involved and that there was at least one fatality. An investigation is ongoing.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In a statement to CBC News, a Sturgeon County spokesperson said \u201cthe motor vehicle collision involved an SUV and a semi-truck. All three passengers of the SUV were deceased on impact.\u201d<\/p>\n
Duhamel said he believes the Highway 28 corridor is dangerous, and that he, like many others, is always thinking of his family members when they drive on it.<\/p>\n
“I’ve driven on those roads for years myself and there’s days, especially in the wintertime, where the word ‘white-knuckling’ kind of comes to mind,” he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“In a situation where you have large semi trucks on a commuter road right beside you and going at high speeds, it can be a little bit nerve-wracking.”<\/p>\n
He added that many local elected officials and residents wanted to expand or twin the highway, especially because of “the success that we’ve seen in this area from an industrial perspective.”<\/p>\n
“When we start looking at the kind of money that you bring in from a taxation perspective \u2026 for the provincial level of government, and the municipal level of government, I guess it’s time to invest in our roads to keep us safe,” he said.<\/p>\n
CBC News asked Alberta’s Ministry of Transportation for comment but did not receive a statement by the time of publication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 3 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":794041,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":["post-794040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-edmonton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794040","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=794040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/794041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}