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.
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" f8 k+ r5 E" N% K. L; E9 PThe 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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$ z' X. k' [) s1 i* ]$ ISTARS Air Ambulance was called to take the girl to the Foothills Hospital.
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- m; `5 k8 _$ F/ u4 uThe male driver and lone occupant of the truck was not injured and did not need to be taken to hospital.