One person is dead and an unknown number of people sustained minor, non-life-threatening injuries after a three-vehicle crash on Highway 17 in the East Hawkesbury Township, Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) reported on Tuesday afternoon.
The fatal collision occurred on Highway 17, between Tupper Street and Golf Road, around 12 p.m., the Hawkesbury OPP detachment said in a news release.
The highway is closed from Tupper Street to Gourley Road and detours will be in place for “several hours,” OPP media relations office Const. Mario Gratton wrote.
Gratton said OPP traffic collision investigators are on scene and the investigation is still in its “preliminary stages.”
“An update will be issued when accurate and confirmed information becomes available,” Gratton wrote.
The Prescott-Russell Paramedic Service and the East Hawkesbury Fire Department also responded to the car crash, the release said.
Hawkesbury is located about an hour and 15 minutes east of Ottawa.
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