On October 15, 2024, at approximately 5:25 pm, Stonewall RCMP received a report of a SUV travelling northbound in the southbound lane of Highway 7 at Stony Mountain and it appeared a collision had occurred. A Stonewall RCMP officer was on scene in under five minutes and found the SUV had collided with a pickup truck on Highway 7, about half a kilometer north of Road 73 North.
The SUV was on fire and the driver and lone occupant was deceased. The deceased has not yet been identified.
The driver and lone occupant of the pickup, a 36-year-old male from Teulon, was removed from the vehicle and officers provided CPR. He succumbed to his injuries and was pronounced deceased on scene.
A RCMP Forensic Collision Reconstructionist attended the scene and is assisting with the ongoing investigation.