Woman dies in Pictou County collision

Police are investigating a car crash early Thursday morning near New Glasgow, N.S., where one woman died and two other people were taken to hospital.

Shortly after 1:35 a.m., Pictou County RCMP responded to a single-vehicle collision on Egypt Road in Hillside, which is about five kilometres north of New Glasgow.

According to an RCMP news release, a vehicle left the roadway and overturned. 

One woman died at the scene. Two other occupants, a man and a woman, were taken to hospital with unknown injuries.

Egypt Road was closed in both directions from Pictou Landing Road to the west and Old Glenfalloch Road to the east. It reopened around 6 a.m.

An RCMP collision analyst was on scene.