WINNIPEG, (Sept. 1, 2004) — The general manager of the Manitoba Trucking Association wants to see a section of the Trans-Canada Highway twinned after an explosive weekend crash involving a car and two transport trucks left a Winnipeg motorist and a N.B. truck driver dead.

MTA GM Bob Dolyniuk told the Winnipeg Sun that the TCH west of Kenora, Ont. needs to, without question, be upgraded. He said much of the highway through Ontario consists of a single lane through hilly, winding terrain — adding that, except for the Rocky Mountains, it’s some of the toughest terrain around.

Gary Pasternak was driving west on the Trans-Canada near the Royal Lake Resort and had just passed a tractor-trailer when he collided with an oncoming Day and Ross truck. The accident occurred just past a bend in the highway on a straight-away in a no-passing zone.

Both trucks veered into a rock face, bursting into flames. The driver of the Day and Ross truck, 50-year-old Wayne Archibald of Brighton, N.B., was trapped in his truck and died. A Pine Falls man driving the other Gardewine North truck escaped with minor injuries, the Sun reports.

Pasternak was pulled from his car and a doctor performed CPR, but he died at the scene.

— from the Winnipeg Sun