RCMP investigating deadly head-on crash in RM of Hanover

One man is dead and another is recovering following a head-on collision Sunday night.

Around midnight, Steinbach RCMP responded to the crash on highway 12, about 1 km south of highway 303, in the Rural Municipality of Hanover.

Officers say when they arrived at the scene, one vehicle was on its side in the ditch while another blocked both lanes of the highway.

The 22-year-old man driving the vehicle on the highway died at the scene, police say. The other driver, a 20-year-old man from the Rural Municipality of De Salaberry, was taken to hospital in critical condition.

He has since been upgraded to stable.

Steinbach RCMP and the RCMP criminal collision investigation team are investigating.