A shipment of houses from Hay River bound for Jean Marie River was involved in a collision, Monday night.
Chris Betts, district manager for the South Slave region for ARCAN, which built the homes, said he was expecting the shipment to arrive around 7 p.m. Monday night. He received word at about 8:30 p.m. that night that the shipment had been involved in a collision on the highway east of Jean Marie River.
Jennifer Lukas, a spokesperson for the Department of Infrastructure, which is responsible for the NWT Higway Patrol, said one of the vehicles carrying one of the homes was involved in a collision with two other vehicles that were pulled to the side of the highway at approximately Kilometre 263.
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Tthe other two homes were scheduled to be shipped to the Dehcho community Dec. 16.
The did not immediately respond to a request for comment.