Teen extricated from car after head-on collision near Chestermere

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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.

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 [1 f7 n- E0 nThe 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.
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4 V* o* D+ b. @5 U% |STARS Air Ambulance was called to take the girl to the Foothills Hospital.
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! U( `/ \7 M! m: N( K2 B( ]* iThe male driver and lone occupant of the truck was not injured and did not need to be taken to hospital.