Fatality associated with overnight incident

Posted on: Staff Writer

From edition: August 21 2020 Strathmore Times

By Sean Feagan, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

A memorial outside the 100 Block of 2nd Ave. in Strathmore on Aug. 18. The memorial commemorates the life of a local man who died at the scene of an accident that happened in the early hours of Aug. 15.

Sean Feagan Photo

In the early hours of Saturday, Aug. 15, Strathmore RCMP responded to a single-vehicle incident downtown and found a Strathmore resident dead at the scene.

Strathmore RCMP responded to the incident at about 2:45 a.m. Saturday morning in the 100 block of Second Ave. in Strathmore, explained Staff Sgt. Dale Morgan. The responding officers found a vehicle had left the roadway, struck a signpost, which had been knocked over and entered the glass window of a business, he said.

The driver, a 59-year-old Strathmore resident, was found dead at the scene. The incident is being investigated by the coroner’s office as a suspected medical emergency. The death of the man is not believed to have resulted from injuries sustained in the incident.