Five die in crash

• December
• 10

1:11 am Trucks, accident

including three children — were killed Friday in a horrific crash involving a cement truck at the city’s southern edge.

Debris was scattered for several hundred metres.

The five victims, all travelling in one vehicle, died at the scene of the 7 p.m. crash on Macleod Trail at 194th Avenue S.E.

Though the investigation was in its early stages, police duty inspector Luch Berti said it appeared the car — which was unrecognizable — may have been struck from behind by the cement truck.

The truck’s driver was not hurt in the crash; police took him into custody for questioning.

“Some of the information we’ve received is that the truck was travelling at a high rate of speed,” Berti said at the scene, where tarps covered what remained of the shredded car that was pinned under the cement truck.

It appears both vehicles were headed north on Macleod Trail, said police, adding that the car had stopped at a set of traffic lights at the 194th Avenue intersection .