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Woman taken to hospital with non-life threatening injury after being involved in MVA

A 54-year-old woman was transported to the hospital after being involved in a two-vehicle collision which occurred shortly before the supper hour on November 18.

Emergency crews from Yellowknife were called to Kam Lake Road, near the hockey arena where a woman was laying on the ground next to a badly damaged SUV that had just been involved in a motor vehicle accident. (MVA)

Julie Plourde is the Media Relations Officer with the Northwest Territories RCMP in Yellowknife.

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“At approximately 3:15 p.m., on Monday, November 19, the Yellowknife RCMP attended a motor vehicle collision at the intersection of Kam Lake Road and Woolgar Avenue,” Plourde said. “A female driver was transported to the hospital for treatment of a non-life threatening injury.”

A witness on the scene told Moose News the woman was injured by the airbag deployment in her vehicle. Traffic was disrupted for a short period of time while crews on the scene cleaned up the debris from the two badly damaged vehicles involved.

The investigation is ongoing.

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Arthur C. Green
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Arthur C. Green is from Whitbourne Newfoundland and graduated from the CNA Journalism Program. Arthur also studied Business Marketing and Political Science at Memorial University in Essex England and St. John's Newfoundland. Green has worked as a spot news photographer/journalist with such news organizations as CBC, CBC Radio, NTV, Saltwire and Postmedia in Alberta.

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