Two-car crash kills two near Leamington

There has been another fatal accident on Highway 77 north of Leamington. Two occupants of a vehicle were pronounced dead at the scene Friday morning.

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Two people were killed as a result of a collision between two vehicles on Highway 77 north of Leamington on Friday morning, OPP reports.

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The Leamington OPP, Leamington Firefighters and Essex-Windsor Emergency Medical Services responded shortly after 5:30 a.m. M. To the scene of an accident on Highway 77 north of County Road 14.

Two people were declared dead at the scene, both occupants of one of the vehicles involved.

The identities of the deceased were withheld at press time pending notification of the closest relatives.

As of noon Friday, the section of Highway 77 between Mersea Roads 8 and 10 remained closed to traffic while technical collision investigators examined the scene.

County Road 14 was also closed between Mersea Roads 12 and County Road 31.

The section of Highway 77 in question is a two-lane carriageway without lighting. There is a posted speed limit of 80 km / h.

The Friday morning incident occurred just a few miles north of where a previous fatal accident occurred on Highway 77 last month.

On the morning of November 7, around 6:50 a.m., two vehicles collided on Highway 77 between Mersea’s Highways 5 and 6.

That accident also claimed the lives of two people in one vehicle: a 72-year-old female passenger and the 76-year-old driver of the vehicle, both Leamington residents.

November was a deadly month for Windsor-Essex roads: on the night of November 10, a two-vehicle collision at Lakeshore claimed the life of a two-year-old boy, and during the early morning hours of November 20 , two 17-year-old Men were killed in a car accident in West Windsor.