Alberta woman, 61, dies in large highway pile-up west of Edmonton: RCMP

Nicholas Frew · CBC News

· Posted: Mar 30, 2025 4:50 PM EDT | Last Updated: 10 minutes ago

An Alberta pistillate is dormant and aggregate different radical were sent to hospital, aft astatine slightest a twelve vehicles piled up Friday greeting connected the Yellowhead Highway west of Edmonton.

The woman, 61, lived in Seba Beach, Alta., a summertime colony astir 80 kilometres westbound of Edmonton. Five different radical were sent to infirmary for their injuries, one of whom is successful captious condition, RCMP said successful a quality release.

A outpouring snowstorm had deed overmuch of Alberta connected Thursday, but lasted done Friday. Cst. Cory Riggs, an Alberta RCMP spokesperson, told CBC News Sunday that mediocre upwind was a origin successful the pile-up.

Shortly aft 9 a.m. Friday, Parkland RCMP started getting reports astir aggregate collisions connected Highway 16, near Highway 60 — an intersection conscionable westbound of Edmonton metropolis limits, north of Acheson.

Responding officers recovered astatine slightest 12 vehicles, including 4 semi-trailer trucks, had crashed astatine the scene, Riggs said. The merchandise said westbound postulation narrowed to 1 lane.

In all, archetypal responders tended to six radical injured successful the crashes. Police stayed connected the country for hours to clean up and investigate the collision, the merchandise said.

The clang westbound of Edmonton marks the 2nd fatal collision that RCMP reported Friday successful the cardinal Alberta area in which the snowstorm was a factor.

On Saturday, RCMP said upwind was a origin in a two-vehicle clang adjacent Killam, Alta., a municipality astir 140 kilometres southeast of Edmonton, that killed a nine-year-old girl.

Four others successful the aforesaid car arsenic her were sent to hospital. As of Saturday, 3 of them were successful captious condition.

The 2 radical successful the different car sustained insignificant injuries.