Alcohol possible factor in crash that killed Hollow Water woman

A woman from Hollow Water First Nation has died in a crash linked to alcohol consumption, Manitoba RCMP said on Friday.

Police said the woman, 51, died in a single-truck rollover on Highway 304 near Manigotagan, Man. just before midnight Thursday.

She was declared dead on scene.

The driver, 54, also from Hollow Waterwas taken to hospital in critical condition but he has since stabilized, the Mounties said.

Investigators believe alcohol was a factor in the crash.

Officers from Powerview, Man. said they later found another passenger, a 21-year-old woman from Hollow Water, who had left the scene. She was not injured.

Hollow Water,157 kilometres northeast of Winnipeg, islocated on the eastern shoreof Lake Winnipeg.