Mounties are investigating a head-on collision that killed a 14-year-old boy and injured two people south of Vernon over the weekend.

The teenager was a passenger in a Pontiac Sunfire that witnesses saw swerve into oncoming traffic and hit a Dodge pickup on Highway 97 Sunday afternoon.

The impact sent the truck rolling onto its roof and left the Pontiac in a ditch at the side of the road.

The young passenger was found dead at the scene and the 17-year-old driver was airlifted to Kelowna General Hospital with serious but non-life threatening injuries.

Mounties have not released the deceased’s identity but said he was a Vernon resident.

The Dodge driver, a 26-year-old man from Lumby, was relatively unharmed but a 25-year-old woman in the pickup suffered serious injuries.

Neither speed nor alcohol appear to be factors in the crash. The RCMP investigation is ongoing.