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Alberta’s Serious Incident Response Team is probing a fatal collision involving Edmonton police.

ASIRT has confirmed that two people have died in a three-vehicle collision that took place on Manning Drive and 50 Street before 7 a.m. Sunday.

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A tweet on a Twitter account associated with ASIRT said someone involved in that fatal crash had unspecified “contact” with Edmonton police before the collision. The tweet said ASIRT was investigating whether that contact “precipitated (the) fatal collision.”

ASIRT spokeswoman Susan Hughson confirmed police were involved in a criminal investigation of the driver of one of the vehicles.

“They had encountered the suspect vehicle earlier,” Hughson said.

She added the suspect driver was not one of the two killed in the crash.

More details have been promised for Monday. Police referred all questions to ASIRT, which was formed to investigate incidents involving police that result in serious injury or death.

A green two-door car, badly damaged on all sides, sat at the collision scene Sunday. It came to rest on top of a sign post and apparently broke an electrical communications box off its foundation. A second car at the scene had front-end damage.