A Thessalon area resident has died following a snowmobile collision that occurred yesterday afternoon.
A news release issued by East Algoma Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) states that a snowmobile collided with a pickup truck on Cameron Road in Huron Shores Township (near Bright Lake).
Full text of the OPP release follows:
HURON SHORES - On Jan. 2, 2022 at approximately 3:30 p.m., the East Algoma Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to a snowmobile collision on Cameron Road, Huron Shores Township.
A single snowmobile had collided with a pickup truck. The snowmobile operator, Ernest Boulrice, 52 years old from Thessalon First Nation, was pronounced deceased at the scene. There were no injuries to the two occupants of the pick-up truck.
The investigation is ongoing under the direction of the Office of the Chief Coroner and the Ontario Forensic Pathology Service (OCC-OFPS) and a post mortem examination will take place in Sault Ste. Marie.
The OPP's Traffic Incident Management Enforcement (TIME) team and Technical Collison Investigator (TCI) are continuing to investigate.