NEWS RELEASE
ONTARIO PROVINCIAL POLICE
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On Dec. 18, 2020, at approximately 11:30 a.m., members of the Superior East Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police responded to the report of a serious motor vehicle collision on Highway 17 approximately 10 kilometers south of Wawa.
Officers arrived on scene and found that a single tractor trailer had struck a rock cut. The driver of the vehicle, William Magnusson, 55 years-of-age, from Libau, Manitoba, was pronounced deceased at the scene. The passenger was transported to hospital with non-life threatening injuries and later released.
Members of the North East Region Traffic Incident Management and Enforcement team are still investigating.
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