Highway 28, just north of the town of Gibbons, Alta., was finally reopened around 11 p.m. on Thursday after a fatal crash.
While Alberta RCMP haven’t released many details about the crash, Sturgeon County said in a post on social media that the crash resulted in “multiple fatalities.”
According to information from 511 Alberta, the crash happened shortly after 5 p.m., prompting the RCMP to shut down Highway 28 between Highway 28A and 50 Avenue.
The closure lasted for about six hours.
People who live in the area have long complained about the lack of traffic controls along Highway 28.
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The mayor of Sturgeon County, Allana Hnatiw, told Global News during an interview in November of 2025 that “there are a number of intersections along there where we see high collisions and fatalities.”
With traffic along the road expected to increase over the next few years – following plans announced earlier this week that a huge new data centre will be built in Alberta’s Industrial Heartland – there are concerns there could be more accidents along the same stretch of Highway 28.
Let it be known to folks like the other very special commenter that there is indeed an intersection there, just a few feet behind there the picture was taken. Being rear ended by a semi tends to throw vehicles a fair way off.
Lack of traffic controls? The picture of the skid marks are on a straight piece of road not an intersection.
Global just attempting to discredit the UCP again?