Ontario Provincial Police are investigating a fatal multi-vehicle collision that closed Highway 17 north of the Sault over the weekend.
Sault Ste. Marie OPP say emergency services responded to the collision involving three vehicles on Highway 17 near Haviland Shores Road in Goulais Township around 3 o'clock Saturday afternoon, with investigation determining a northbound vehicle failed to negotiate a curve, continuing into the southbound lane where it made contact with one vehicle who narrowly avoided a head-on collision but continued on and collided with a second vehicle.
A passenger of the second vehicle was pronounced dead at the scene, identified as 81-year-old Richard Harrison of Sault Ste. Marie, while the two drivers of the head-on collision were taken to hospital with "serious injuries".
The investigation's ongoing with the OPP Technical Collision Investigator and reconstructionist while the Office of the Chief Coroner of Ontario-Ontario Forensic Pathology Service is assisting, with a post-mortem examination planned.