MVA in Digby County

Source: The Chronicle Herald

NOVA SCOTIA - Seven people were taken to hospital after a two-vehicle crash near Bear River on Friday.

Just before 3:30 p.m., RCMP received a 911 call about a two-vehicle collision at the intersection of Purdy and Waldeck Line roads in the Annapolis County.

"All seven were transported to hospital, six had non-life-threatening injuries, but one was more serious, but as of now we don’t have an update on the exact status of that one individual," RCMP spokeswoman Sgt. Brigdit Leger said early Friday evening.

One of the people injured was a young girl. Also hurt were two men and four women.

One of the vehicles contained three people while the second had four.

The cause of the crash is still under investigation.

Four ambulances with eight paramedics responded to the scene.

"We transported five to the Digby General Hospital and two to the Annapolis hospital," Paul Maynard, an Emergency Health Services spokesman, said.

LifeFlight was expected to fly one of the females — the most seriously injured — from Digby General to a Kentville hospital, he said.

The road was not closed down as a traffic analyst investigated, Leger said.

"My understanding is that it was sunny and clear at the time," she said.

The ages of the injured people were not available.