Two people have been taken to hospital after a car crash on Highway 7, just south west of Saskatoon near the Cory potash mine.

Police said a westbound car hit an oncoming car head on while trying to pass a semi-trailer truck.

A new release from MD Ambulance suggested that both patients are in Royal University Hospital in Saskatoon in stable condition.

The crash, sometime around 8 a.m CST slowed traffic to a crawl through the area.

Traffic is returning to normal.