Crash with semi kills 4 teens near Gilbert Plains: Manitoba RCMP

Four teenagers are dead and another is seriously injured following a crash with a semi-truck on a highway near Gilbert Plains, Manitoba RCMP say.

Police say they received numerous calls about the crash near the corner of Highway 5 and Provincial Road 274 around 10:50 p.m. Wednesday.

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An early investigation found that a car heading north on PR 274 drove through a stop sign and hit the trailer portion of a semi heading east on Highway 5.

Two 17-year-old male passengers and the 18-year-old male driver, all from the Dauphin area, died at the scene, police said in a media release Thursday.

An 18-year-old woman from Carberry was rushed to hospital where she later died.

A 15-year-old girl from the Rural Municipality of Dauphin was also rushed to hospital with serious injuries, where she remains.

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Police say the driver of the semi, a 30-year-old man from Saskatoon, was not physically injured in the crash.

Local police continue to investigate with help from an RCMP forensic collision reconstructionist.

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Gilbert Plains is about 314 kilometres northwest of Winnipeg.