Teen extricated from car after head-on collision near Chestermere

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CALGARY — A teen girl was taken to Foothills Hospital in potentially life-threatening condition Monday morning after a head-on collision that involved a "complicated extrication" near Chestermere.
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At around 8:30 a.m., RCMP, Chestermere fire crews and Calgary EMS personnel were called to Highway 791 just east of Calgary after a pick-up truck and smaller car crashed head-on, said EMS spokesman Stuart Brideaux.
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" x: {& I" ]. a1 |- }3 VThe female driver in her mid-teens, who was the lone occupant of the small car, sustained serious and potentially life-threatening injuries and needed to be extricated from the vehicle by fire crews.

7 n! q: ]3 Z; Y! HSTARS Air Ambulance was called to take the girl to the Foothills Hospital.
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6 {" l8 {( G2 @- ?" b: d: OThe male driver and lone occupant of the truck was not injured and did not need to be taken to hospital.