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Police and paramedics are frustrated — especially after a weekend of several fatalities — that despite efforts to keep highways safe, they end up at accident scenes of death and serious injuries.

“We see that day in and day out, all the time and it gets very frustrating for the officers who put their hearts and souls behind their work trying to keep the highways safe and then they get called to another serious crash,” Sgt. Darrin Turnbull said.

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An 18-year-old man and 16-year-old girl died east of Red Deer Friday, when they were ejected from the vehicle when it crashed.

Three other occupants of the vehicle were injured.

East of Calgary Saturday afternoon two more people were seriously injured in a two-vehicle crash on Range Rd. 264 just north of Township Rd. 244.

In Calgary a woman was killed and two others were injured in a vehicle rollover along Memorial Dr. near 5 St. N.W. early Saturday.



And Sunday, just before 8 p.m., a motorcyclist was killed in a collision with another vehicle in the 2400 block of Edmonton Trail N.E.