2 boys hospitalized after UTV, semi collision on Manitoba highway

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· Posted: Jun 24, 2025 1:17 PM EDT | Last Updated: 7 hours ago

Two boys were sent to infirmary aft the inferior task conveyance they were driving was deed by a semi on a Manitoba road connected Monday, RCMP say.

Mounties responded to the clang astir 11:15 a.m. connected Highway 244 successful the agrarian municipality of Treherne, wherever they recovered the semi connected the enarthrosis facing northbound and the UTV lying successful the ditch connected the westbound broadside of the road, RCMP said successful a Tuesday quality release.

The archetypal probe determined the UTV was being driven northbound down the road by a teenage boy, with different lad arsenic a passenger, erstwhile the semi moved into the passing lane to walk the slow-moving UTV, the merchandise said.

The UTV past made a abrupt crook crossed the roadworthy successful beforehand of the semi, and was deed by the larger conveyance adjacent Road 41 North. Neither lad was wearing a seatbelt oregon a helmet, RCMP said. 

The teen driving the UTV was taken to infirmary successful captious information by STARS aerial ambulance, portion the different lad was taken to infirmary by EMS successful superior but non-life-threatening condition. Their conditions person some since been upgraded to stable, Mounties said. 

The operator of the semi was not injured. Alcohol was not believed to beryllium a origin successful the crash, the quality merchandise said.

Treherne RCMP proceed to investigate, on with the transgression collision probe squad and a postulation analyst.