car crash

NISKU, Alberta -- Police in Western Canada are searching for the naked truth after a bizarre traffic collision on a rural road.

Royal Canadian Mounted Police Cpl. Laurel Scott said officers responded to the report of a car colliding with a truck in Nisku, south of Edmonton, Alberta, on Monday. When they arrived, they found that five people in the car -- a man and four women -- were naked.

The five people taken into custody were "not clothed at the time of their arrest," Scott said in a news release. All five were taken to a nearby hospital for treatment of undisclosed minor injuries.

"Preliminary investigation leads RCMP to believe that this collision was not accidental. RCMP believe that drugs and/or alcohol are a contributing factor to this collision," Scott said in the release.

She described the incident as "quite an investigation" in an interview with the Edmonton Sun.

Scott said Tuesday she was unsure of the charges the nude motorists would face, though she said police consider it a "purposeful collision."

She called the incident "very bizarre" and said, "We are trying to sort through all the different information we have so we can figure out from start to finish what this incident is all about."