Family of Alberta highway crash victims asks people to drive safe as long weekend nears [Video]

The family of a 33-year-old man and a 73-year-old woman who were killed in a crash on a central Alberta highway last month is pleading for people to drive safely, especially ahead of a long weekend that is typically a busy one on provincial roads.

“If you’re going to hop behind the wheel this weekend, please … use your head,” Lawrence Junior Konchinew told Global News on Tuesday.

His brother, Kean Myron Konchinew, and mother, Shirley Rose Konchinew, were killed on the night of April 2 in the area of Highway 21 and Township Road 502 in Leduc County. The RCMP said the car they were travelling in was involved in a collision with an SUV. The driver of that vehicle was taken to hospital with serious injuries.

According to police, an investigation is ongoing and they are looking at whether impaired driving may have played a role in the …