Woman, 59, dead in rollover southeast of Dauphin

CBC News

· Posted: May 20, 2025 3:09 PM EDT | Last Updated: 5 hours ago

A  59-year-old pistillate died aft her conveyance rolled implicit and landed successful a water-filled ditch successful occidental Manitoba.

Police were alerted to the incidental astir 11:45 p.m. Friday by a clang notification sent from the woman's iPhone, said RCMP Sgt. Paul Manaigre.

When officers arrived, the pistillate had been pulled from her conveyance by respective passersby, who had travel crossed the scene.

Paramedics rushed the pistillate to infirmary wherever she was aboriginal pronounced dead.

It's believed the pistillate mislaid power of the conveyance connected the gravel roadworthy arsenic it crossed a obstruction line.

The archetypal alert to constabulary gave a radius disconnected Highway 5, adjacent Ochre River. A abbreviated clip later, an updated alert pinpointed the clang to Road 140N successful the agrarian municipality of Lakeshore, conscionable southeast of Dauphin.

The alert is an automatic diagnostic that detects a precise abrupt deceleration, according to Manaigre. It then activates an exigency alert.

If it's not an existent emergency, the idiosyncratic has 10 seconds to crook it off.

"It adjacent talks to you to spot if you tin respond by dependable command. If aft the 10 seconds, you don't crook it off, it contacts 911 and provides an approximate determination via latitude/longitude coordinates," Manaigre said successful an email.

He said it's not the archetypal such notification RCMP person received, but Manaigre believes it's the archetypal 1 related to a fatal crash.

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