North Battleford firefighters were kept busy Wednesday responding to vehicle accidents on slippery area highways.
According to Deputy Fire Chief Brian Wilson, between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. crews responded to four separate single-vehicle rollovers in almost every direction around the city.
At 8:23 a.m. crews responded to a pickup truck that had rolled onto its roof about eight kilometres west the city on Highway 16. The lone occupant was not injured and had managed to get himself out of the vehicle prior to the crews arrival, Wilson reports.
Crews travelled roughly nine kilometres north on Highway 4 at 12:27 p.m. to assist at a scene where a pickup truck was on its side. There was a small child and driver in the vehicle. The child was uninjured, and the driver was being assessed by ambulance.
Just west of Maymont. at 1:10 p.m., to a rolled pickup had three occupants. The driver suffered minor injuries and was treated by EMS. The driver and both passengers were transported to hospital for further assessment and treatment.
At 2:40 p.m. crews responded west of Maymont to another pickup rollover with two occupants. The driver, a 79-year-old man, was deceased at the scene and the passenger, a 69-year-old woman, was transported to hospital by EMS.
Wilson says the causes of the accidents are being investigated by RCMP, although area highways were noted by fire crews as being extremely slippery at the times of the accidents.
