Crash that killed 5 in Nova Scotia involved car going wrong direction on highway – Halifax [Video]

RCMP say officers were already investigating a “possible impaired driver” involving a Honda Civic near Falmouth, N.S. this weekend when it collided with another vehicle — killing five people and leaving one person in critical condition.

First responders were called May 10 to Hwy. 101 between Hantsport and Falmouth — in a twinned section of the highway — just after 11 p.m.

“At this time, based on physical evidence gathered at the scene, investigators believe that the Honda Civic was travelling in the opposite direction of traffic in the eastbound lanes when it collided with the Nissan Sentra approximately 1.5 kms from Exit 7 in Falmouth,” a Monday news release reads.

The driver and passenger of the Civic, a 43-year-old man from Pockwock and 45-year-old woman from Lower Sackville, were both pronounced dead at the scene.

Police say the driver of the Sentra, a 45-year-old woman from Oxford, N.S., and a 58-year-old male passenger from Nappan, N.S., were also declared …