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Police investigating fatal snowmobile crash in Sagamok First Nation

Police responded to the crash shortly after 5 p.m. on Saturday
2021-05-20 OPP cruiser

NEWS RELEASE
ONTARIO PROVINCIAL POLICE
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On Feb.  19, 2022, at approximately 5:08 p.m., members from the Manitoulin (Espanola) Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), the Anishinabek Police Service, the Manitoulin-Sudbury District Paramedic Services and the Sagamok First Nation Fire Department responded to a snowmobile collision on the Motorized Snow Vehicle (MSV) trail at Fort La Cloche Lake Road, within the community of Sagamok First Nation.

A single snowmobile was travelling northwest from La Cloche Lake Road towards the MSV trail and collided with a cluster of trees. The snowmobile operator, Corrina Wilder, 43 years old, from Massey was pronounced deceased at the scene. 

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 Sudbury.

The OPP's Technical Collison Investigators (TCI) are continuing to investigate.

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