Brandon drivers are seeing big changes at a dangerous intersection in the city after a deadly crash in May. The Manitoba government has put in a four-way stop at Highway 110 and Richmond Avenue East, replacing the old two-way stop. This comes after a 49-year-old Brandon woman was killed there on May 27 when a semi-truck drove through the stop sign and hit her SUV.
The new setup started on June 16, 2026, and includes stop signs with flashing red lights on all four corners. The province also added rumble strips to warn drivers, digital message signs to alert them, and posts to clearly mark the lanes. A Brandon Police Service traffic officer is also helping out during busy times to make sure people get used to the change and drive safely.
The intersection has been a problem spot for years. Brandon police say there were seven crashes in 2025 and five in the first five months of 2026. A person died there in October 2021 too. Traffic lights were already put up months before the latest crash, but they could not be turned on because CPKC still needs to connect the signals with the nearby railway crossing. The province expects that work to be done sometime this summer.
After the fatal collision, the semi-truck driver, 35-year-old Brijpal Panwar, was charged with dangerous driving causing death. The trucking company he worked for, Conquer Transportation Inc., had its Manitoba safety certificate taken away in November 2021 for not following highway safety laws. But the company got registered in Alberta and kept running in Manitoba. Manitoba Transportation and Infrastructure Minister Lisa Naylor said the company was among the riskiest carriers in Alberta, with a safety rating far worse than the industry standard.
Naylor has asked the federal government to create a national database so provinces can better track trucking company safety records. The Insurance Bureau of Canada also supports this idea. For now, the four-way stop is an interim fix until the full traffic signals can be activated. The province says these steps are meant to make the intersection safer for everyone who uses it every day.
