One Person Dead After Collision South of Wawa

One person is dead after a single vehicle collision just south of Wawa.

Superior East Ontario Provincial Police say they responded to the collision on Highway 17 about ten kilometres south of town around 1:30 yesterday afternoon - a passenger was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries, later succumbing to them, while the driver sustained what are described as "non-life-threatening injuries".

The OPP Traffic Incident Management Enforcement - or TIME - Team processed the scene, with the investigation still ongoing.