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FROM/DE: Lanark
County Detachment DATE:
September 1, 2010
UPDATE - Woman Fatally Injured in Collision
(TAY VALLEY, ON)
– On August 31, 2010
at approximately 4:00 pm, Lanark
County Ontario
Provincial Police (OPP) responded to a single motor vehicle collision. The
collision occurred on Fallbrook Road
approximately 3 km
south of the Village of Fallbrook.
A Toyota
Corolla was travelling northbound on Fallbrook road and while on a curve; it went
onto the shoulder on the right side of the road, lost control, went across
the road into the opposite ditch and rolled over. The road conditions were wet at the time.
The driver was extricated by the Bathurst,
Burgess, Drummond and Elmsley (BBD&E) Fire Department and was transported
by ambulance to the Perth Hospital. The driver was later transported by air
ambulance to the Ottawa Civic
Hospital where she was pronounced deceased. The driver has been identified as 78 year
old Shirley MCLEOD of Montague Township.
Fallbrook
road was closed for several hours while Technical Traffic Collision
Investigators (TTCI) investigated the collision. Fallbrook road was reopened late last
night.
For more OPP releases go to www.crimealerts.net
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Contact:
Constable Sean Trahan
Community Services Officer /
Lanark/Frontenac Media Relations
Lanark County OPP
Phone: 613-257-5610
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