RCMP ask public to help identify driver of truck in crash near Coaldale

RCMP in Coaldale are appealing to the public for information following a two-vehicle collision Monday morning involving a stolen truck.

Mounties say the crash happened just before 8 a.m. at the intersection of Highway 4 and Highway 845, southeast of Lethbridge.

According to RCMP, two people from the Yukon were driving in a white Ford F-150 truck southeast on Highway 4 toward the U.S. border when a black Chevrolet truck with two males and a female in their 20s, which was travelling north on Highway 845, crossed in front of the white truck in the intersection.

The white truck collided with the driver’s side of the other vehicle, which came to a stop in the centre median.

Police said during the “confusion of the collision,” the two male occupants of the black truck exited the vehicle and it was not clear which of the two was the driver. All three occupants were taken by ambulance to the Chinook Regional Hospital in Lethbridge. The female passenger, who was in the back seat, was later flown by STARS air ambulance to Calgary with serious head and internal injuries.

The two occupants of the white truck, a man and women in their 70s, were taken to the Chinook Regional Hospital, and the man was later taken to a Calgary hospital.

Mounties said the black truck was determined to have been stolen from Lethbridge.

Authorities are asking anyone who was at the collision scene and who can identify the driver of the black truck to contact Coaldale RCMP or Crime Stoppers.