Teen extricated from car after head-on collision near Chestermere

anweica

CALGARY — A teen girl was taken to Foothills Hospital in potentially life-threatening condition Monday morning after a head-on collision that involved a "complicated extrication" near Chestermere.
- `/ Y% ]5 [) U/ h0 w( P9 b% w
At around 8:30 a.m., RCMP, Chestermere fire crews and Calgary EMS personnel were called to Highway 791 just east of Calgary after a pick-up truck and smaller car crashed head-on, said EMS spokesman Stuart Brideaux.
/ p4 N) X; A" y( O8 D+ N; \0 E
9 T6 G+ M9 ?5 ^  `) o4 PThe female driver in her mid-teens, who was the lone occupant of the small car, sustained serious and potentially life-threatening injuries and needed to be extricated from the vehicle by fire crews.
; @' H8 I) a( {+ I
3 I& Z" J; `6 l* _8 l/ CSTARS Air Ambulance was called to take the girl to the Foothills Hospital.
4 o: Q' L- N. f$ h' C4 c
The male driver and lone occupant of the truck was not injured and did not need to be taken to hospital.