22-year-old killed in UTV crash in Laurentian Hills
Ontario Provincial Police are investigating after a 22-year-old was killed in a crash involving a side-by-side Utility Terrain Vehicle (UTV) in Laurentian Hills on early Sunday morning.
OPP say in a news release that officers were called shortly before 12:45 a.m. for a single-vehicle UTV crash on Pergeon Lake Road, a rural area about 200 kilometres northwest of downtown Ottawa and 40 kilometres north of Petawawa.
Preliminary information indicates the UTV rolled after encountering a curve in the road, police say.
Both the driver and passenger were ejected from the vehicle and taken to hospital by ambulance.
The 22-year-old passenger from Eganville, Ont. was pronounced dead in hospital. The 25-year-old driver from Laurentian Hills sustained non-life-threatening injuries.
A post-mortem investigation has been ordered.
The investigation is ongoing with the assistance from OPP Technical Collision Investigators and a collision Reconstructionist.
Anyone with information regarding this collision is asked to contact the Upper Ottawa Valley OPP at 613-735-0188 or Pembroke/Renfrew County Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477) or at www.valleytips.ca.
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