Communities in western Cape Breton are coming together in the wake of a two-vehicle crash that claimed the lives of two high school students from Inverness County and a 71-year-old visitor from Utah. 

Police responded to the crash on Saturday morning in Mabou, N.S., and discovered that a car and a pickup truck had collided on Highway 19.

The driver and passenger of the car were pronounced dead at the scene, while a 71-year-old man who was a passenger in the truck died of his injuries shortly afte…