WINNIPEG – Poor visibility is being blamed for a crash on U.S. Interstate 29 that killed a Winnipeg woman Saturday.
The accident happened around 2 p.m. roughly eight kilometres north of Drayton, N.D.
Karla Mackenzie, 33, was travelling south in an SUV when the vehicle was rear-ended by a semi, the Pembina County Sheriff’s Department said.
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Her husband, another woman and two three-year-old girls were also in the vehicle.
The children were rushed to a Minneapolis hospital. Their condition is not being released.
The SUV was going extremely slowly or was stopped when it was hit, police said.
A no-travel advisory was in effect at the time of the crash.
The driver of the semi, who is also from Winnipeg, was not seriously injured.
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