Overview
- A rural collision about nine kilometres west of Foam Lake on Friday left a 40-year-old woman and two girls aged eight and five dead after a truck passing a semi collided with an SUV.
- Wadena/Foam Lake RCMP arrested 40-year-old Kelly Knopf of Sumter, South Carolina, and charged him with three counts each of dangerous operation causing death and causing bodily harm; he is scheduled to appear in Yorkton Provincial Court on Monday.
- Two separate British Columbia highway crashes on Thursday killed four people and Chase and New Hazelton RCMP have publicly appealed for witnesses and dashcam video to help their investigations.
- In Vancouver a pickup split and caught fire after striking a nursing home in the early hours of Friday; the 34-year-old driver was arrested on dangerous and impaired operation charges and given a 90-day driving ban while no residents were hurt.
- Emergency crews airlifted seriously injured people to hospital and police continue to work with collision reconstructionists, a development that underscores risks of passing on two-lane rural roads and the investigative value of civilian dashcam footage.