2 P.E.I. women dead in southeastern N.B. crash
The two passengers who died, a 71-year-old and a 73-year-old, were both from Stratford, P.E.I., according to Staff Sgt. Andrew Griffiths with the New Brunswick RCMP.
Just before 1 p.m. on Thursday, Shediac and Sackville RCMP detachments responded to a single-vehicle crash on Highway 15. The two women died at the scene and the driver of the vehicle, whose age and gender were not provided, was taken to hospital with what are believed to be life-threatening injuries, Griffiths said in an email.
He said the vehicle was travelling west when it's believed to have left the highway on the median side and rolled in the air before landing on the roof.
The highway was closed to traffic but reopened around 7:30 p.m. Thursday, according to RCMP.
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