Four people are dead following an early morning collision on the South Perimeter Highway.

RCMP Manitoba says in a release that members of the Headingley Traffic Services received a report of a two-vehicle collision at 2:30 a.m. on the Perimeter Highway, approximately one kilometre west of St. Anne’s Road.

Police say the believe that a car was travelling in the wrong direction in the eastbound lanes when it collided head-on with a minivan.

The 26-year-old female driver of the car, from Winnipeg, was pronounced deceased on scene.

The three occupants of the minivan, the 26-year-old male driver and a 26-year-old female passenger, both of Steinbach and a 63-year-old female passenger, from Germany, were pronounced deceased on scene.

Headingley Traffic Services RCMP, along with a Forensic Collision Reconstructionist, continue to investigate and are asking anyone who may have witnessed this collision to please call 204-984-6913 to speak with an officer.