By Bre McAdam

Body found near crash in Saskatoon that destroyed two houses

Feb 15, 2012 | 3:57 PM

A man's body has been found near the scene of a crash in south Saskatoon Wednesday morning, where two homes under construction in Saskatoon's Stonebridge neighbourhood burned to the ground.

Police said a semi-tractor unit lost control going south on Highway 11 after the Highway 16 overpass, went over the sound attenuator and crashed into the basement of one of the houses, which set the other ablaze.

It has not yet been confirmed if the body is that of the semi driver, who has been missing so far.

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Blair Pisio with the community association lives just blocks away from the crash site, and said he has never been concerned living so close to a freeway.

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“I was shocked when I heard what the crescent was, it was getting closer and closer to my home,” he said, adding it might be time to discuss safety measures with the city.

“It is someone's home and they may have been planning on moving in the next couple of months, and now they cannot.”

Pisio says Stonebridge won't expand any closer to the freeway, and hopes something like a guardrail could prevent this kind of incident from happening again.

Jeff Fox was there when the fire started.

“It was probably about 40 feet in the air — there was some pretty good flames there, and then it went down a bit,” he said.

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