EDMONTON — Four Filipino workers were killed and another person critically injured in a head-on collision just south of Innisfail, Alta., late Sunday night. All five are from Edmonton.
Around 11:10 p.m., emergency officials responded to a crash on the QEII Highway, the major artery between Edmonton and Calgary.
The RCMP say witness accounts suggest a northbound SUV was driving in the southbound lanes when it collided with a car driving south. Alcohol appears to have been a factor.
Two men, both aged 35, and two women, ages 39 and 52, died in the collision. A fifth passenger, a 28-year-old woman, was transported to University of Alberta Hospital in Edmonton, where she was in critical condition. Names have not yet been released.
The victims were Filipino temporary foreign workers, the Edmonton Journal has learned.
The 29-year-old man driving the SUV was transported to Red Deer Regional Hospital, where he was treated and released. He has refused a breath sample and remains in RCMP custody.
Innisfail is 105 kilometres north of Calgary.
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