It was a tragic long weekend on area roads with six deaths on OPP-patrolled roadways, two of them children.
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Officers say it was the highest number of fatal road incidents since the civic long weekend in 2011.
Among the fatal incidents was the death of a three-year-old girl at the Pinery. She was hit by a pick-up truck that was trying to make a U-turn. A six-year-old girl died in a crash involving a transport truck in Caledon.
Two motorcyclists were also killed over the weekend. A 22-year-old man died in a crash between his motorcycle and a passenger vehicle on Highway 427 in southern Ontario and a 52-year-old man was killed when he lost control near Killaloe.
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According to police, a 28-year-old man died following a single vehicle crash on the shoulder of Highway 400 in Tay Township, and a 64-year-old man died in southern Ontario after driving the wrong way on Highway 404 and getting into a head-on crash. In the Highway 404 case, the other driver involved was seriously injured.
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OPP add that officers laid 8,566 charges over the long weekend, with more than 5,000 of them for speeding.
Police used the weekend to put a special focus on enforcing the Move Over law and ended up laying 511 charges under that legislation, up from 413 in 2017 and 471 in 2016.
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