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Youth in Halifax hospital after dirt bike collision near Tignish

The RCMP and the B.C. Coroners Service are investigating after a man was killed in a single-vehicle accident early Monday morning in Langley.
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ST. FELIX, P.E.I. — The driver of a dirt bike has been transferred to the IWK Children’s Hospital in Halifax following a collision with a car near Tignish, Sunday afternoon.

Sgt. Neil Logan with Prince District RCMP was not releasing the age or the gender of the dirt biker operator but said the youth sustained serious injuries in the crash. 

The incident occurred around 4:30 pm.

Logan said the dirt bike was travelling east on the Haywood Road in St. Felix, just outside of Tignish, when it overshot a stop sign and ran into the side of a car travelling north on the Christopher Road.

Island EMS and Tignish Fire Department assisted at the scene.

The collision remains under RCMP investigation.

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