Driver ticketed for taking photos of fatal crash scene

A 46-year-old man from Medicine Hat, Alta., was killed Thursday morning after he failed to negotiate a curve on a rural highway.

Mounties say the cause of the crash is still under investigation.

They also reminded motorists about distracted driving after a person took photographs of the crash scene while driving by.

That driver was ticketed by police.

"It is illegal, unsafe and disrespectful when driving through a collision scene to be taking photographs of a scene under investigation," RedcliffRCMP said in a release.

The single-vehicle crash happened on Highway 41 about five kilometressouth of Elkwater shortly after 6:30 a.m., police said.

Elkwater is about 360 kilometres southeast of Calgary.

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