Airport Road collision injures six
A head-on collision on Airport Road, north of Mansfield Saturday, has left six people injured, four of them with life threatening injuries.
A two-vehicle collision between a northbound Mitsubushi RVR and a southbound Toyota Camry happened just after 6:30 p.m. on Jan. 14, said Dufferin OPP. The cause of the collision is still under investigation.
Mulmur-Melancthon Fire Department extricated those trapped in the vehicles and Airport Road, between Dufferin County Road 17 and the 15th Sideroad, did not reopen fully until 5 a.m. the next morning to allow for the investigation.
The driver of the Camry, a 58-year-old woman from Marmora, was transported to local hospital and then airlifted to hospital in Toronto suffering from neck, back and chest pain and an injury to her right leg and foot.
An 18-year-old male passenger, also from Marmora, was taken to a local hospital treated and released.
The backseat passenger, a 51-year-old Stayner man was taken to local hospital and then airlifted to Toronto with a dislocated right hip and broken left hip and broken shoulder. The other backseat passenger, a 35-year-old Stayner woman, was taken to local hospital and then airlifted to Toronto with bilateral fractures to femurs, a fractured pelvis and internal bleeding.
The driver of the Mitsubishi, a 53-year-old Mulmur Township man, was taken to local hospital and then transferred to hospital in Toronto with critical injuries including a broken femur, broken sternum, broken wrist and head injuries and was in critical, but not life threatening, condition.
A 20-year-old passenger was taken to a local hospital where he was treated and released.
Some of the occupants had extricated themselves from the collision when a third vehicle, travelling north, struck the Camry. The driver fled the scene.
Police say, a driver’s side mirror was left at the scene indicating a blue Volkswagen was involved in the second collision. Today, a 19-year-old male from Mulmur Township turned himself in to Dufferin OPP. The investigation is continuing and charges are pending.
Anyone with information about either collision is asked to contact the Dufferin OPP via the OPP Com-Centre at 1-888-310-1122.
