NEWS RELEASE
ONTARIO PROVINCIAL POLICE
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ESSA TOWNSHIP - Thursday, Oct. 12, 2017 at approximately 9:12 a.m., members of the Nottawasaga Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), were called to the scene of a two vehicle collision on Scotch Line, Essa Township.
The collision involved a Pontiac Sunfire traveling northbound and a Honda Civic traveling southbound on Scotch Line when the two vehicles collided head-on.
The Nottawasaga OPP were assisted at the scene by Essa and New Tecumseth Fire Department, Simcoe County Paramedics and OPP Technical Traffic Collision Investigations (TTCI).
The 43-year-old male driver of the Pontiac Sunfire was pronounced deceased at the scene. The male driver of the Honda Civic was transported to a local hospital with non-life threatening injuries and the female passenger of the Honda Civic was transported by air ambulance to a Toronto hospital and is in critical but stable condition.
The investigation is still ongoing.
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