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Highway 17 reopens after serious collision between tractor-trailer and car: OPP

Provincial police say a driver was killed in a single-vehicle collision on Highway 401 near Iroquois Thursday morning. Don Mitchell / Global News

A section of Highway 17 near Chalk River has reopened Friday morning following a serious two-vehicle collision overnight, according to an update from OPP.

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An eastbound passenger car collided with a tractor-trailer travelling in the opposite direction on the highway around Kings Road shortly after 10 p.m. on Thursday, police said.

The driver of the car, suffering from serious but non-life-threatening injuries, was initially transported to hospital by ambulance but was later airlifted to a hospital in Ottawa by an Air ORNGE helicopter.

The driver of the tractor-trailer was not injured, though the vehicle did catch fire after the collision.

The Ministry of the Environment attended the scene due to a fuel spill from the truck.

The collision closed access to the highway between Plant and Beladair roads in Laurentian Hills for several hours, but traffic resumed Friday morning.

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