Driver dead after crashing into water-filled ditch near Matlock, RCMP say
A woman is dead after the vehicle she was driving careened into a water-filled ditch and rolled onto its roof south of Matlock, Man.
At about 7:45 p.m. on Tuesday, Selkirk RCMP were called about a single-vehicle crash on Chalet Beach Road, about three kilometres east of Highway 9 in the rural municipality of St. Andrews.
Local emergency crews and Mounties arrived to find a vehicle partially submerged in water in a ditch next to a gravel road, according to an RCMP news release on Wednesday.
Officials found a 69-year-old woman from the rural municipality of Rockwood dead inside the vehicle, RCMP said. She was the lone occupant.
RCMP believe she lost control of the vehicle on the gravel road and ended up rolling the vehicle onto its roof in the ditch, which had about a metre of water in it at the time of the crash.
The woman was wearing a seatbelt and investigators don’t believe alcohol was a factor.
The investigation continues.
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