MOUNTAIN VIEW COUNTY - RCMP urged travellers early on Tuesday morning to take road conditions into consideration when heading out after a jack-knifed semi truck closed northbound lanes on Highway 2 south of the Carstairs turnoff for several hours.
By 7 a.m., 511 Alberta listed Highway 2 between Red Deer and Township Road 292 south of the Carstairs turnoff as partly covered with snow and ice.
Northbound lanes of the highway north of Township Road 294 in Mountain View County south of the Carstairs turnoff had just been re-opened a few hours earlier.
Update: NB QEII north of TwpRd294, south of Carstairs - OPEN - jackknifed semi has been cleared. (2:56am) #ABRoads https://t.co/A5eczRoqDr
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Just after midnight, Didsbury RCMP advised it was on the scene of a motor vehicle collision involving a jack-knifed vehicle on Highway 2, near Township Road 294.
“Didsbury RCMP advise that road conditions are currently dangerous, with ice forming in many areas. The public is asked to avoid all unnecessary travel and those who must travel are asked to do so safely while taking road conditions into consideration,” police said at the time.
The province’s travel advisory service advised the public at 2:56 a.m. that the semi had been cleared and the highway had re-opened.
Snowfall warnings, in place in Mountain View County and other Alberta locales since Sunday, ended about an hour later.
