A woman has died and another is in hospital after a car collided with a dump truck in Lower Sackville, N.S.

Police responded to the crash at the intersection of Old Sackville Road and Beaver Bank Connector around 2:45 p.m. Wednesday.

A 28-year-old Lower Sackville woman, who was a passenger in the car, died at the scene.

A 57-year-old Fall River woman, who was driving the car, was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries.

The driver of the dump truck wasn’t injured.

The intersection was closed for several hours while investigators were on scene. It reopened at 1 a.m. Thursday.

The cause of the crash is under investigation.