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Alberta RCMP are investigating the fatal crash on Highway 3

One person was killed and three others were injured in a three-vehicle crash in southern Alberta near Brockett on Friday.

Members of the Piikani Nation RCMP, Fort Macleod RCMP and Pincher Creek RCMP responded to the crash on Highway 3 around 2 p.m.

Mounties say an eastbound semi truck rear-ended an SUV and a pickup truck.

The 62-year-old driver of the pickup truck was pronounced dead at the scene, while a 62-year-old female passenger was airlifted to a Calgary hospital by STARS Air Ambulance with serious, life-threatening injuries.

The driver of the SUV, a 34-year-old Lethbridge woman, and a two-year-old girl who was in the vehicle with her were taken to hospital with unknown injuries.

The driver of the semi truck was taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

A section of Highway 3 was closed for several hours while RCMP investigated, eventually reopening around 8:30 p.m.

RCMP do not believe drugs or alcohol were factors in the collision.