A Fauquier-Strickland resident was killed in a weekend crash on Highway 11.
The collision between two pickup trucks happened on Sunday, Feb. 6 around 2:30 p.m. west of Smooth Rock Falls.
The 73-year-old driver of one of the trucks, Omer Ethier, was killed in the crash, said OPP in a news release. The driver of the other truck sustained minor injuries.
The highway was closed for about nine hours for the police investigation, which is ongoing and includes the North East Region Traffic Incident Management and Enforcement Team and the OPP Technical Collision Investigators.
A Kapuskasing woman recently started a campaign pushing for safer highways in Northern Ontario, specifically on highways 11 and 17. Read more about the Letter for Chad campaign here.
