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Two people are dead after a crash involving a passenger vehicle and tractor-trailer on Wednesday in rural Lambton County, police say.
The driver of the vehicle, 79-year-old from Windsor, was taken to hospital by air ambulance and pronounced dead there, Ontario Provincial Police say. The crash happened at about 1 p.m. at the intersection of Inwood Road and Courtright Line. That’s an intersection in a rural swath of Lambton County whose closest communities are Brigden and Oil City.
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The passenger, a 77-year-old from Windsor, was pronounced dead at the scene. Lambton OPP did not identify the people killed in the crash.
Inwood Road was closed between Oil Springs Line and McNally Street, and Courtright Line was closed between Forest Road and Sutorville Road for the investigation. The roads have since reopened. The investigation was ongoing as of Thursday, police said.
Area police chief retiring
Zvonko Horvat is set to retire as Aylmer’s police chief at the end of January, it was announced on Thursday, and he will be replaced by Kyle Johnstone, who is now deputy chief.
“We are confident that the department will continue to excel in serving our community under Johnstone’s leadership,” reads a statement from the board that oversees Aylmer police. “We thank Chief Horvat for his remarkable service and wish him all the best in his well-deserved retirement.”
Aylmer is one of the last small Ontario towns with its own municipal police force, the rest long ago taken over by the Ontario Provincial Police. A 2022 organizational chart indicated it employed roughly 20 police officers, including the chief.
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