Charges are pending in connection to a two-vehicle crash south of Tavistock, Ont. Saturday that sent seven people, including three children and one infant, to hospital, provincial police said Sunday.
Details about the crash remain limited, but police said emergency crews were called to the scene at Hwy. 59 and Maplewood Side Road around 5 p.m. for a collision involving a minivan and SUV.
Seven people — three adults, three children, and one infant — were transported to hospital in varying conditions, police said Saturday, adding Oxford EMS and volunteer firefighters assisted those involved in the collision.
In an email late Sunday morning, OPP Const. Adam Crewdson said all seven have been cleared from hospital, and unspecified charges are pending the completion of the investigation.
Members of the OPP’s Technical Collision Investigators attended the scene to assist and Hwy. 59 was closed from Cassel Side Road to Oxford Road 34 for around four hours before reopening just after 9 p.m. Maplewood Side Road was also closed from 11th Line to 13th Line.
At least three serious collisions, two of them fatal, have taken place along Hwy 59. at or north of Maplewood in the last four years.
In January, a 28-year-old East Zorra-Tavistock Twp. woman was killed and one man was taken to hospital with serious injuries following a two-vehicle crash at the intersection, while in December 2014, a serious three-vehicle crash north of Maplewood involving a car, pickup, and tractor left a 40-year-old Wellesley man dead and sent two to hospital.
In August 2013, a two-vehicle collision at Hwy. 59 and Oxford Road 34 sent two people to hospital, one with life-threatening injuries.
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