Chatham-Kent police investigate triple fatal collision in Wallaceburg
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Chatham-Kent police are investigating a fatal collision between a car and a semi tanker truck that claimed three lives and injured three others.
Chatham-Kent police are investigating a fatal collision between a car and a semi tanker truck that claimed three lives and injured three others.
Police say emergency crews responded to the crash around 9:55 p.m. Sunday on McNaughton Avenue at Wallace Street in Wallaceburg.
The driver, a 23-year-old Wallaceburg woman, was driving a car with four other people inside on Wallace St. when the vehicle went onto McNaughton Ave. and struck a tractor trailer which was driving northbound on McNaughton, police say.
Police say the driver, along with a 24-year-old Wallaceburg man and a 24-year-old Wallaceburg woman, who were passengers in the car, sustained fatal injuries in the collision and were pronounced dead at the scene.
A 25-year-old woman from Dover, also a passenger in the car, sustained life-threatening injuries and was transported to a London hospital in critical condition.
The fourth passenger, a 22-year-old Wallaceburg woman sustained non-life-threatening injuries and was taken to the Chatham-Kent Health Care Alliance.
Police say the driver of the tractor trailer sustained minor injuries and was also transported to the Chatham-Kent Health Alliance.
