One person is dead, another in hospital with serious injuries following a two car crash near Strathmore Tuesday night.

RCMP say around 11 o'clock, two vehicles crashed on Highway 797, killing one driver on the scene.

The drivers were the lone occupants of each vehicle.

EMS says the person taken to hospital was a man in his mid-30's who was driving a pick up truck.

The highway was closed for most of the night as police tried to figure out the cause of the crash.

No names have been released as Mounties are still trying to contact the victims families.