Driver, 82, charged in fatal crash after attempting U-turn on Highway 101

An 82-year-old woman has been charged after police say she tried to make a U-turn on Highway 101 in Falmouth, N.S., resulting in a series of events thatkilled one man and seriously injured a woman.

RCMP say just before 1 p.m. on Tuesday, the woman, who is from West Hants,was driving east on Highway 101 in a white car when she attempted a U-turn across the highway.

An 82-year-old man driving a grey car was also heading east on the highway, and swerved to avoid the woman's car. The man, also from West Hants, lost control of his vehicle and crashed. He suffered life-threatening injuries and was rushed to hospital, but was pronounced dead a short time later.

A third vehicle travelling westbound on the highway collided with the white car making the U-turn, according to police. The 63-year-old driver of the third vehicle, a woman from Dartmouth, suffered serious but non-life-threatening injuries and was taken to hospital.

The woman making the turn fled the scene and was found on nearby Payzant Bog Road, according to police.

She was not injured, and was arrested and charged with dangerous operation of a conveyance causing death, dangerous operation of a conveyance causing bodily harm and failure to remain at the scene of an accident. She was released on conditions that included she is not allowed to drive a motor vehicle.

She will appear in Windsor provincial court at a later date.

Police are continuing to investigate the collisions.

Highway 101 was closed for several hours.