Victim in fatal Chestermere crash identified
Harmeet Singh was killed in a multi-vehicle collision early Friday near Chestermere (Courtesy Facebook)
The family of a man killed in a multi-vehicle crash near Chestermere has identified the victim.
A GoFundMe page identifies him as 29-year-old Harmeet Singh.
The page was launched by his brother to raise money to repatriate his body to India.
The crash happened around 3 a.m. Friday morning, closing the westbound lanes of the Trans-Canada highway.
RCMP know two trucks were parked at the side of the highway and were sideswiped by a third semi.
One person is dead after a semi truck crashed into two other semis parked along the shoulder of the Trans-Canada Highway east of Calgary around 3 a.m. on Jan. 20, 2023.
Three others were transported to hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
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