One person is dead and two others are seriously injured following a head-on collision on Highway 7 east of Omemee, Ont., on Thursday morning.
According to City of Kawartha Lakes OPP, the collision around 7:40 a.m. involved a car and a commercial motor vehicle at the intersection of the highway and Emily Park Road, about 3.5 kilometres east of the village of Omemee.
Police say the driver of the car, a 21-year-old man from Manilla in Brock Township, Ont., was pronounced dead at the scene. A passenger, a 22-year-old man from Sunderland, Ont., was airlifted to a Toronto-area hospital with life-threatening injuries.
The other driver, a 44-year-old man from Oshawa, was transported to an area hospital.
As of noontime, Highway 7 remains closed from Emily Park Road to Orange Corners Road as OPP continue to investigate.
— more to come.