The RCMP have identified the victims of a head-on collision in Shelburne County, N.S.

Police and emergency crews responded to the crash on Highway 103 in Birchtown before 3:30 p.m. Sunday.

They say a westbound car collided head-on with an eastbound vehicle.

The drivers, and lone occupants of their vehicles, were pronounced dead at the scene.

They have been identified as 72-year-old Daniel Eugene Clayton of Shelburne and 80-year-old Bernice Ruth Somers of Barrington.

The incident remains under investigation.