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Highway 17 crash leaves one dead

Members of the Northeast Region Traffic Incident Management and Enforcement team are assisting with the OPP's investigation
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File photo supplied by the Ontario Provincial Police

A single motor vehicle crash on Highway 17 has left one person dead.

Superior East OPP members responded to the collision on Nov. 9 at 8:55 a.m..

The driver of the sedan was pronounced deceased at the scene.

For more information please see the release included below.

On Nov. 9, 2021, at 8:55 a.m., members of the Superior East Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to a serious single motor vehicle collision on Highway 17 in Asselin Township, approximately 50 kilometres south of Wawa.  

The driver of the sedan was pronounced deceased at the scene. 

Members of the Northeast Region Traffic Incident Management and Enforcement (T.I.M.E.) team are assisting with the investigation. 

The investigation is still ongoing. More information will be released as it becomes available. 

All lanes of Highway 17 have re-opened.