Update: Gavin Nordeman and Darcie Slaa, both 22, identified in Owen Sound fatal collision

The wreck of a pickup truck sits in a field at the corner of Sunny Valley Road and Hwy. 6&10, south of Rockford, following a collision with a transport truck and another car.
Photo: James Masters, Owen Sound Sun Times

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Source: Mississauga.com

ONTARIO - A Mississauga tractor-trailer driver escaped uninjured Friday night after a fatal collision near Owen Sound.

Ontario Provincial Police in Grey County are now appealing for witnesses.

Two people died Friday after a three-vehicle collision on Hwys. 6 and 10 at Sunny Valley Rd. near Owen Sound.

Gavin Nordeman of Meaford and his fiancee, Darcie Slaa, both 22, were killed after their pickup truck drove onto the highway about 11 a.m. Their car was struck by both a northbound car and a southbound tractor trailer. The truck driver, Earl Vallier, 62, of Mississauga, was not hurt.

The driver of the northbound car, David Tebbutt, 57, of Chatsworth County, suffered what police described as non life-threatening injuries.

Anyone with information is asked to call Const. Sheldon Grieg at Grey County OPP at 519-794-7827.

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A public Facebook Group, Praying for the Slaa and Nordeman Families, has been established by family and friends to share condolences.

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Source: Barrie Examiner [Dec 04, 2009]

Two killed in crash near Owen Sound

ONTARIO - Ontario Provincial Police closed Highway 6 & 10 south of Owen Sound today following a three-vehicle collision that left two people dead.

The collision occurred just after 11 a.m. when two vehicles, a car being driven north and a southbound tractor-trailer, both hit a pickup truck that entered the highway from Sunny Valley Road, Grey County OPP said in a news release.

The occupants of the pickup, a man and woman who police said were from "Central Ontario," died at the scene. Further details, including the names of the couple, were being withheld pending notification of the next of kin.

The driver of the car was taken to hospital in Owen Sound by ambulance with non life-threatening injuries. The driver of the tractor-trailer was not injured but taken to hospital as a precaution, police said.

The highway may be closed for some time as OPP collision reconstruction experts investigate the scene, Const. Steven Starr, the Grey County OPP spokesman, said this afternoon.

Highway traffic meanwhile is being rerouted to Derby Concession Road 5 along Grey Road 18 at Rockford and Grey Road 16 north of Chatsworth.