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Police identify driver following fatal crash in Wellington North

OPP have identified the woman killed in a crash in Wellington North on Monday morning. Don Mitchell / Global News

OPP have identified the driver killed in Monday’s single-vehicle crash in the Township of Wellington North.

The crash happened south of Mount Forest on Side Road 3 West, just east of Wellington Road 6 at around 7 a.m.

Police said an SUV collided with a guardrail on a bridge and flipped upside into a creek below. Crews removed the SUV from the water and the driver was pronounced dead at the scene.

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She has now been identified as 22-year-old Meagan Beyers of Mount Forest.

OPP investigators are still trying to figure out why the SUV went into the guardrail and ended up in the water.

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