Editor's note: This article has been updated from the original with the latest information from RCMP
INNISFAIL – RCMP have updated a travel advisory issued this morning discouraging travel on Highway 2 between Olds and Innisfail to now include travel as far north as Ponoka due to "extremely icy" conditions.
At 2:02 p.m. on March 7, RCMP advised that Highway 2 continues to have poor driving conditions.
"These conditions now extend from Ponoka south to Olds. RCMP are responding to multiple motor vehicle collisions and are asking motorists to avoid the area," said RCMP Cpl. Troy Savinkoff in the updated statement.
With four Highway 2 collisions between Innisfail and Olds in seven minutes this morning, the RCMP advised motorists to avoid travelling in that section of the freeway.
“Just by looking at a couple of these reported collisions from the people who were in them, they are reporting to our dispatch that the roads are extremely icy,” said Savinkoff.
He said the RCMP received its first call at 10:47 a.m. of a collision at the Olds turnoff at Highway 2 and Highway 27. Savinkoff said he did not have any details of that report.
“Other than to say there was a collision at that time. I don’t know how many vehicles or anything like that,” said Savinkoff.
He said there were three more collisions, with the fourth and last being reported at 10:59 a.m.
Savinkoff said a semi tractor trailer was rear-ended by a car on the southbound lane of Highway 2 in Mountain View County.
He said there were no reports of any injuries from the four reported collisions.
At 2:58 p.m. today Three Hills RCMP issued a warning to motorists of high wind gusts, ice and snow covered roads creating poor driving conditions.
Three Hills RCMP advise travel on commuter highways in Knee Hill County, Red Deer County and Trochu is not recommended.
