Three killed in crash near Parry Sound
Jun. 26, 2006. 12:08 PM
LINDA NGUYEN AND TAMARA CHERRY
STAFF REPORTERS
Three people, including a Canadian soldier, are dead after a four-vehicle collision northeast of Parry Sound Sunday afternoon.
Four men and two women were travelling in a 2006 Mazda on Hwy. 69 at Hwy. 124 in Badgers Corners when the car crossed the centre line and struck a pick-up truck head-on around 12:30 p.m.
The four men in the car, all in their 20s, were from Camp Borden, a military base near Barrie, Ont.
The 21-year-old male driver, serviceman Mitchell Emms from Fredericton, N.B., and the two 20-year-old female passengers, Chantel Gale and Amanda Scale, were pronounced dead on the scene, said police.
The remaining three male passengers were taken to hospital with serious injuries.
Two of the men were in Parry Sound to visit the two women who were their girlfriends.
They were coming back from a ball game when the crash occurred, said Const. Don Gore of Parry Sound OPP.
“They were driving at a normal speed but that’s enough (to do damage) in a head on collision. It was a devastating crash,” he said.
The two dead women were from Parry Sound and were roommates attending school together.
Alcohol has not been confirmed as the cause of the crash but the people in the car been drinking the night before and may have been drinking the morning of the crash, said Const. Gore.
The couple that were in the pick-up truck have been identified as Bruce Summers, 61 and his wife, Martha Summers, 54. They were both taken to hospital with serious injuries.
The six people in the other two cars involved were all taken to hospital with minor injuries.
Police are still investigating.
