NEWS RELEASE
ONTARIO PROVINCIAL POLICE
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TEMAGAMI - On Feb. 27, 2020 shortly before 1:30 p.m., members of the Temiskaming Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), the District of Nipissing Emergency Medical Services (EMS) and the Marten River Fire Department, responded to a call for a motor vehicle collision on Highway 11 in Temagami.
Further investigation revealed that a pickup truck and a transport were travelling southbound when the two collided subsequently involving another collision with an OPP cruiser that was northbound.
The police officer was transported to hospital by ambulance to be treated for non-life threatening injuries.
The drivers of the truck and transport did not sustain any injuries.
The OPP Technical Traffic Collision Investigators (TTCI) were deployed to the scene and the investigation is ongoing. Further information will be released as it becomes available.
Hwy 11 was closed in both directions for some time due to inclement weather and was re-opened at 2 a.m. on Feb. 28, 2020.
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