Passenger dies after truck crashes into tree on Peggys Cove Road

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April 29, 2024 at 11:12 a.m.·1 min read

RCMP said a pickup truck crashed on Peggys Cove Road west of Halifax around 7 a.m. Sunday. (Robert Short/CBC - image credit)

A 28-year-old woman from Hacketts Cove, N.S., died Sunday in a pickup truck crash along a coastal road just west of Halifax.

RCMP said the victim was a passenger in a GMC Canyon that hit a tree after it left Peggys Cove Road while going around a curve near the community of French Village. Police were called to the scene around 7 a.m.

The driver, a 29-year-old man from Glen Haven, N.S., was seriously injured and taken to hospital, police said in a news release Monday.

Police did not say what led to the crash, but a collision reconstruction expert was at the scene to help with the investigation.

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