Canora, Sask. woman dead after 3-vehicle crash near Yorkton

An 82-year-old woman is dead after the minivan she was driving was involved in a three-vehicle crash north of Yorkton on Saturday afternoon.

RCMP from the Yorkton detachment said the woman, who’s from Canora, was driving southbound in a minivan on Highway 9, just three kilometres north of the Yorkton at about 3 p.m.

In an emailed news release, Mounties said the van “came into contact with a northbound utility trailer and collided with a northbound pickup truck.”

She was pronounced dead at the scene.

A 37-year-old woman driving the truck sustained “core and lower body injuries,” according to the release. STARS air ambulance flew her to a hospital in Regina.

The people in the vehicle hauling the trailer weren’t injured.

RCMP said a collision analyst is still investigating the crash, which shut down the highway for about seven-and-a-half hours on Saturday.