Source: Sudbury Star
ONTARIO - A woman involved in a serious motor vehicle collision on Highway 540 on Manitoulin Island Sunday morning involving a car and snowplow has died.
Lorna Fogg, 61, of Evansville, died in hospital in Greater Sudbury Monday of her injuries.
She was a passenger in a Pontiac Sunfire being driven by a 51-year-old woman about 10:45 a.m. Sunday on Highway 540 in Billings Township, just east of M'Chigeeng First Nation.
Manitoulin Island Ontario Provincial Police say the Sunfire was heading towards Little Current when it collided head-on with a westbound Belanger Construction snow plow/dump truck which was plowing and sanding.
Police say the Sunfire lost control and went into a spin, crossed the centre line, and the back of the car hit the blade of the plow. The Sunfire ended up in the west ditch with extensive damage.
The two women had to be extricated from the vehicle by M'Chigeeng First Nation firefighters. They were taken to Mindemoya Hospital and subsequently airlifted to hospital in Greater Sudbury.
Fogg suffered life-threatening injuries in the collision and had been in intensive care.
The 51-year-old woman, meanwhile, is in critical condition with major injuries.
The crash is still under investigation.
Source: Sudbury Star
Serious collision Sunday on Manitoulin Island injures two women
ONTARIO - A motor vehicle collision on Highway 540 on Manitoulin Island Sunday morning sent two women to hospital with serious injuries.
Manitoulin Island Ontario Provincial Police say the collision occurred about 10:45 a.m. in Billings Township, just east of M'Chigeeng First Nation, and involved an eastbound Pontiac Sunfire being driven by a 51-year-old Gore Bay woman.
Police say the Sunfire was heading towards Little Current when it collided head-on with a westbound Belanger Construction snow plow/dump truck which was plowing and sanding.
Police say the Sunfire lost control and went into a spin, crossed the centre line, and the back of the car hit the blade of the plow. The Sunfire ended up in the west ditch with extensive damage.
The 51-year-old female driver of the Sunfire, along with a 61-year-old female passenger from Evansville, both had to be extricated from the vehicle by M'Chigeeng First Nation firefighters.
The women were taken to Mindemoya Hospital and subsequently airlifted to hospital in Greater Sudbury.
The 61-year-old woman suffered life-threatening injuries and remains in intensive care. The 51-year-old woman, meanwhile, is in critical condition with major injuries.
The highway was closed to traffic for about seven hours.
The collision is still under investigation.
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