Five found naked at crash scene
Five people found naked after a two-vehicle crash in Nisku that Mounties said was “not accidental” were being treated for injuries in hospital Monday.
Leduc RCMP called to the crash at 9:47 a.m. Monday on Township Road 510 found a vehicle in the ditch. They took five people into custody, all of them “not clothed at the time of their arrest,” RCMP Cpl. Laurel Scott said in a news release.
The four women and one man were taken to hospital with undisclosed injuries.
“Preliminary investigation leads RCMP to believe that this collision was not accidental. RCMP believe that drugs and/or alcohol are a contributing factor to this collision,” Scott said in the release.
She described the incident as “quite an investigation” in an interview.
The crash scene near 5 Street, across from Trinidad Drilling, had been cleaned up by early afternoon Monday.
However, tire tracks were still visible in the snow showing where a vehicle had left the road and gone into the ditch.
The tracks, along with assorted debris from a vehicle, continued for more than 100 metres before coming to a stop in the ditch just outside the main gate of Argo Sales Inc. at 655 30 Ave.
Numerous footprints could be seen in the ditch at that point, along with blue fluid.
A manager at Argo declined to comment.
The Leduc RCMP general investigation section, forensic identification section, criminal collision investigation team and the collision analyst were all assisting in what will be a comprehensive investigation, said Scott.
Anyone with information about the crash was asked to contact Leduc RCMP at 780-980-7200, or call your local police detachment. If you want to remain anonymous, you can contact Crime Stoppers by phone at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS), by internet at tipsubmit.com, or by SMS.