Area road conditions improve in some areas following freezing rain

Update (9:05 a.m.): We are now hearing reports Highway 40 about 25 km south of Grande Prairie is “a solid sheet of ice” and traffic is crawling.

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Traffic is flowing on Highway 40 south of Grande Prairie again, following extremely icy road conditions Tuesday night that caused a multi-vehicle collision.

RCMP say it happened at the Cutbank River and at the time did not recommend travel in that area due to the freezing rain.