Almost $1,000 an hour flooded into an online fundraising campaign set up over the weekend for the family of a young southeastern Ontario hockey player who was critically injured in a collision.
According to a GoFundMe page, 16-year-old Callum Maybury remains in the intensive care unit at Kingston General Hospital following a single vehicle crash on County Road 42 in near Westport Ont., a small cottage town 45 minutes north of Kingston.
The story published on the fundraising platform says the teen, who plays for the Westport Rideaus Junior B hockey team, suffered severe head and upper body injuries.
Police were called to the scene, west of Noonan Road, at 9:30pm on Sept. 24.
According to the OPP, a 16-year-old passenger was ejected from the vehicle after the 17-year-old male driver lost control and rolled into the ditch.
The driver, from North Grenville, sustained minor injuries while a second passenger, an 18-year-old male from Lombardy, was not injured.
The GoFundMe page says the accident happened after all three were returning home from hockey practice.
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OPP did not respond to request for further detail.
The GoFundMe page for the Maybury family was launched on Saturday Sept. 29 with a goal of raising $10,000. As of Monday morning, donations had reached $20,000.
The Westport Rideaus postponed their home games over the weekend due to the collision, according to their Twitter account.
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