Northeast Calgary crash sends 2 to hospital, closes Airport Trail, Métis Trail intersection – Calgary

Calgary police have closed a major highway due to a Friday morning crash in the northeast.

Around 05:48, Calgary police tweeted the intersection of Métis Route and Airport Route NE was temporarily closed and asked drivers to avoid the area until further notice.

A short while later, Calgary transportation tweeted there was a multi-vehicle incident at the same location.

EMS confirmed with Global News that they responded to a two-vehicle crash and attended to two patients.

They said a man in his late 30s was thrown from one of the vehicles and had “multiple traumatic injuries” that left him in critical, life-threatening condition.

The other patient, whose age or gender was not known, had minor injuries, according to EMS.

By 08:30 the intersection was still closed.

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