Tag: Fatal accident
Police close roads in Sauble Beach following fatal collision Saturday morning
One person is dead and two others have been taken to a London hospital with serious injuries following a two-vehicle collision near the Sauble Beach Golf and Country Club Saturday morning. According to the Grey-Bruce OPP, officers responded to reports of a collision early Saturday morning at Bruce Road 8 and Bruce Road 14 in […]
Police release more details of Springmount fatal collision
Police have released more information about an early morning collision that killed a pedestrian on Dec. 23. Grey Bruce OPP Const. Krista Linthorne said Wednesday that police have determined one vehicle collided with a 47-year-old South Bruce Peninsula resident. An officer at the scene reportedly said it appeared two vehicles were involved but Linthorne clarified […]
Business owner speaks out after 62-year-old employee’s workplace death
The owner of a Lucan farm-equipment manufacturer is expressing shock and sadness over a 62-year-old employee’s workplace death – which he believes may be attributed to natural causes – as Ontario’s Labour Ministry investigates. It was about 9:30 a.m. Monday when paramedics were called to OJB Industries Inc. on Breen Drive in Lucan, north of […]
Show blue: Londoners asked to pay tribute to Girl Guide crash victims
City hall will be lit blue this weekend in honour of eight-year-old Alexandra Stemp, who died in a west London crash this week, and Girl Guide members who were also injured in the collision. Mayor Ed Holder said city buildings will be illuminated in blue, the colour of the Girl Guides of Canada, as a […]
‘Brilliant and vivacious’ girl mourned as London honours crash victims
A London family mourning their “brilliant and vivacious” daughter. A Girl Guide uniform hanging outside a suburban house. A city encouraged to light up in blue, a symbolic colour of the Girl Guides of Canada. The fallout of this week’s devastating west London crash, involving a group of Brownies, that took the life of an eight-year-old […]
London police probe of crash that killed girl, injured nine could take weeks
The community is desperate for answers about how an SUV struck 10 pedestrians walking down the sidewalk in a west London neighbourhood, but it will take weeks for London police to complete their investigation into the deadly crash.
Girl Guides’ iconic blue candle becomes support symbol in crash’s wake
A symbol of friendship for Girl Guides, a simple blue candle has become a new icon for Guides reeling from a shocking west London crash that killed an eight-year-old girl and injured nine other pedestrians. Girl Guides of Canada issued a formal statement Thursday that some of its members were among the victims of the […]
Ripples from deadly crash wash over Girl Guides, schools, neighbourhoods
Schoolkids, Girl Guides and at least one mother were walking together before they were struck in a west London crash that killed an eight-year-old girl and left nine others injured.
‘Breaks my heart’: Trudeau, premier, others respond to London tragedy
A terrible collision. Ten pedestrians struck, including an eight-year-old girl who died of her injuries. On Twitter and elsewhere, reaction — a sampling of it below — poured in after Tuesday night’s deadly crash in London’s west end.
Thamesford grandmother collecting roadside mail killed in alleged hit-and-run
THAMESFORD – Her grandchildren survived the collision, but Mary Hendriksen did not. Neighbours say the 60-year-old was collecting her mail at the end of her rural driveway Tuesday, where she’d driven in a golf cart with the two small children, when police say the cart was struck by a vehicle whose driver did not remain […]