Woman killed up river after deer struck car
43-year-old Millville resident died after incident in Maple Ridge on Thursday, RCMP reports
A Thursday-morning collision between a car and a deer in Maple Ridge has claimed the life of a Millville woman, the RCMP reports.
Officers with the Keswick and Nackawic detachments of the RCMP responded to an accident in Maple Ridge, about 40 kilometres east of Woodstock, at 7:08 a.m. Thursday, as did personnel with the Millville Fire Department and Ambulance New Brunswick, the RCMP said in a news release Friday.
The force issued an advisory through social media Thursday morning that Route 605 was closed for several hours due to a traffic accident.
Friday’s release clarified that the incident involved a collision between a car and a deer.
“The collision is believed to have occurred when a vehicle, travelling southbound on Route 605 struck a deer, sending the deer into a northbound-travelling vehicle, driven by a 43-year-old woman [from Millville],” the release said.
“The driver and lone occupant of the northbound vehicle, the 43-year-old woman, died at the scene as a result of her injuries.”
The driver and sole occupant of the vehicle that initially struck the animal wasn’t hurt, the RCMP reported.
The release said an RCMP collision reconstructionist attended the scene and is assisting with the investigation.
Furthermore, an autopsy will be conducted to determine the woman’s exact cause of death, it said.
The fatality comes just three days after another Millville woman, age 53, was killed in another accident in the Upper River Valley.
That woman died in a two-vehicle collision in Nortondale, about 30 km east of Woodstock.
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