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Fatal Manitoulin Island crash claims life of southern Ontario man

Man, 82, killed in single-vehicle crash on Campbell Line Road
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OPP

A single-vehicle collision on Manitoulin Island claimed the life of an 82-year-old man Dec. 4.

Manitoulin OPP report officers were dispatched to a single-vehicle collision on Campbell Line Road in Central Manitoulin Township at 7:17 p.m. Saturday evening.

Police said officers located the vehicle in the ditch when they arrived. The driver from Thorndale, Ont., was the sole occupant of the vehicle and was pronounced dead on the scene. 

The investigation is on-going with the OPP's North East Region Traffic Incident Management and Enforcement Team and the Technical Collision Investigators.

A post-mortem examination will take place in Sudbury at a later date with the assistance of the Chief Coroner  and the Ontario Forensic Pathology Service.