Two people are dead and one person seriously injured following two separate collisions Thursday morning in Elgin County.
The collisions occurred within three hours of each other, police said.
The first occurred along Highbury Avenue south of London around 7:15 a.m. when a school bus collided with a black sedan north of Ferguson Line.
No children were on the bus at the time, police said. The driver of the sedan was killed in the crash. Elgin EMS assessed the bus driver at the scene. They were injured, but were not taken to hospital, police said.
OPP Const. Ken Johnson said they were still in the process of notifying next of kin. As a result, police could only say that it was a female driver who was pronounced dead at the scene.
The collision prompted the closure of Highbury Avenue from Glanworth Drive to Ferguson Line. It has since reopened.
Johnson said Highbury should reopen for the “evening commute” but couldn’t give a specific time for when that would happen.
The second collision occurred around 9:45 a.m. along Highway 3, also known as Talbot Line, between Hacienda Road and Springfield Road when an eastbound pickup truck and westbound sedan collided head-on.
The driver of the sedan was pronounced deceased at the scene, police said.
On May 7, he was identified as Brian Hall, 65, of Gabriola Island.
The driver of the pick-up was rushed to hospital with serious injuries.
Both collisions remain under investigation.
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