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EDMONTON - A 25-year-old Mountie just seven months on the job is dead following a head-on collision Monday near Stony Plain.
Const. Chelsey Robinson died in hospital Monday after her cruiser collided with a semi-trailer carrying a load of pipes. The trucker was also taken to hospital but is expected to survive.
Robinson has the tragic distinction of becoming the 50th Alberta Mountie to die in the line of duty since 1876 - and the 15th to lose her life in a traffic collision.
The thunderous crash was so violent that it knocked nearby resident Ralph Heighton out of bed.
"I thought a train had hit our house," a subdued Heighton said Monday, still shaken by the blast.
"This is a dangerous intersection. There've been five or six fatalities over the last 20 years, but by far this was the biggest and the loudest."
According to Assistant Commissioner Peter Hourihan, Robinson was responding to a report of an impaired driver travelling in the wrong direction on the Yellowhead Highway about 12:45 a.m.
Robinson was headed north on Range Road 15 and the semi was headed east on the Yellowhead. The intersection is controlled by a stop sign on the Range Road.
Hourihan said the vehicles collided at 90-degree angle, the semi rolled into the median and burst into flames. Miraculously, the trucker was able to get himself out of the wreck before it was engulfed.
Because it's still under investigation, Hourihan said, few details were available. Police were still trying to determine if Robinson's lights and sirens were on.
However, he emphasized that the trucker was not the suspected impaired driver. That vehicle was never found.
The truck's load of massive metal pipes - a metre in diameter and 10 metres long - flew in all directions for several hundred metres.
"I'm amazed no one else was killed," said Heighton, who drives trucks for the City of Edmonton.
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EDMONTON - A 25-year-old Mountie just seven months on the job is dead following a head-on collision Monday near Stony Plain.
Const. Chelsey Robinson died in hospital Monday after her cruiser collided with a semi-trailer carrying a load of pipes. The trucker was also taken to hospital but is expected to survive.
Robinson has the tragic distinction of becoming the 50th Alberta Mountie to die in the line of duty since 1876 - and the 15th to lose her life in a traffic collision.
The thunderous crash was so violent that it knocked nearby resident Ralph Heighton out of bed.
"I thought a train had hit our house," a subdued Heighton said Monday, still shaken by the blast.
"This is a dangerous intersection. There've been five or six fatalities over the last 20 years, but by far this was the biggest and the loudest."
According to Assistant Commissioner Peter Hourihan, Robinson was responding to a report of an impaired driver travelling in the wrong direction on the Yellowhead Highway about 12:45 a.m.
Robinson was headed north on Range Road 15 and the semi was headed east on the Yellowhead. The intersection is controlled by a stop sign on the Range Road.
Hourihan said the vehicles collided at 90-degree angle, the semi rolled into the median and burst into flames. Miraculously, the trucker was able to get himself out of the wreck before it was engulfed.
Because it's still under investigation, Hourihan said, few details were available. Police were still trying to determine if Robinson's lights and sirens were on.
However, he emphasized that the trucker was not the suspected impaired driver. That vehicle was never found.
The truck's load of massive metal pipes - a metre in diameter and 10 metres long - flew in all directions for several hundred metres.
"I'm amazed no one else was killed," said Heighton, who drives trucks for the City of Edmonton.
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