On Sunday night a fatal accident in Fort MacMurray occurred on Highway 881 when a vehicle collided with an unknown object, and the crash caused one death while three other passengers were injured. The accident was a single vehicle collision and all of the facts about the incident are not fully known yet. Law enforcement officials arrived on the scene of the crash at approximately 9:30 pm on Sunday evening, and the officers who responded were from both the Wood Buffalo RCMP and the Lac La Biche RCMP. This fatal accident in Fort MacMurray occurred around Highway 881 marker 173, and the police who responded were on the scene for hours trying to collect evidence and investigate exactly what happened. The road was closed while the investigation was performed and then opened back up.
This is not the first fatal accident in Fort MacMurray, and it is not the first to occur on Highway 881 either. When the RCMP responded to the scene of the crash they found that one of the vehicle occupants was dead on the scene, and another was in serious medical condition and needed to be medevaced out of the scene to a hospital. The other two occupants of the vehicle also required medical attention for injuries and they ere taken to local hospitals by ground ambulances. Highway 881 was closed off from around 9:30 pm until dawn of the following morning, and all of the details of this fatal accident in Fort MacMurray have not been released yet including the names of the occupants.