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Five people found naked after a two-vehicle crash in Nisku that Mounties said was “not accidental” were being treated for injuries in hospital Monday.

Leduc RCMP called to the crash at 9:47 a.m. Monday on Township Road 510 found a vehicle in the ditch. They took five people into custody, all of them “not clothed at the time of their arrest,” RCMP Cpl. Laurel Scott said in a news release.

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The four women and one man were taken to hospital with undisclosed injuries.

“Preliminary investigation leads RCMP to believe that this collision was not accidental. RCMP believe that drugs and/or alcohol are a contributing factor to this collision,” Scott said in the release.

She described the incident as “quite an investigation” in an interview.

The crash scene near 5 Street, across from Trinidad Drilling, had been cleaned up by early afternoon Monday.

However, tire tracks were still visible in the snow showing where a vehicle had left the road and gone into the ditch. The tracks, along with assorted debris from a vehicle, continued for more than 100 metres before coming to a stop in the ditch just outside the main gate of Argo Sales Inc. at 655 30 Ave.