RCMP closed Highway 22 between the Highway 520 and Highway 530 intersections following a late morning crash involving a sedan and an SUV.

According to Adam Loria, EMS public education officer, paramedic crews were called to a location on the highway just north of the Highway 520 intersection shortly before noon.

The driver of the car, a middle-aged man, was pronounced dead at the scene. There were no passengers in the car.

The lone occupant of the SUV, also a middle-aged man, was airlifted d to the Foothills Medical Centre in Calgary by STARS Air Ambulance. The patient was transported in stable condition after suffering numerous non-life threatening injuries.

RCMP have determined the northbound car entered the southbound lane of the highway where it was struck by the oncoming SUV at a spot roughly 50 kilometres north of the town of Maycroft.

RCMP continue to investigate the crash. The highway has reopened to traffic.

The identity of the deceased has not been released.