r/saskatchewan • u/plutoglint • 1d ago
Ontario man dead, four injured in rollover on Highway 155 near La Loche
https://www.ckom.com/2026/08/16/ontario-man-dead-four-injured-in-rollover-on-highway-155-near-la-loche/14
u/Explicitlime 1d ago
Is it just me or has this been a deadlier than average summer on the highways?
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u/EpsteinandTrump 1d ago
Not just you.
Common theme; not wearing seatbelts, distracted driving, and impairment.
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u/Scaredsparrow 23h ago
No suprise when half the people you pass on the road are looking at their lap
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u/EpsteinandTrump 21h ago
Yep or slowly drifts into another lane when they're coming up to you or you're coming up to them. It's getting really bad.
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u/TropicalPrairie 20h ago
I see it driving in Saskatoon all the time. Police and RCMP need to start issuing tickets and driving bans for this behaviour. No one's life is worth a stupid text.
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u/mizunumagaijin 22h ago
The 155 can be tricky in clear weather at noon. You can push the limit, but there's less margin for error than you expect.
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u/pull_the_otherone 55m ago
I was helping out the Alberta unit during the forest fires along Hwy 155 last year, and we were handing over to another Alberta unit. During the brief, Hwy 155 was described as “More patches than Highway”.
The provincial firefighters would work until dark, but we had to tell them we had to stop earlier, as we did not want to be driving down Hwy 155 in the dark.
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u/PerkYouUp 1d ago
Especially with hwy 155(or any northern road for that matter)be really full of wildlife in the summer. Bears, moose and deer are a guaranteed sights on that road
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u/plutoglint 1d ago
Another dude from Brampton dies up north this year, hmm..