By Angela Gemmill
OPP now say two people are dead following yesterday’s multi-vehicle collision, near North Bay.
Investigators say an eastbound car veered across the centre line and struck an oncoming van yesterday afternoon along Highway 17 East, 10 kilometres West of North Bay.
A third vehicle struck debris.
The driver of the van, 58-year-old Dorothy McLeod of Garden Village died at the scene.
The 65-year-old driver of the first car, Jean Pierre Duclos of St Mathieu du Parc, Quebec later died in hospital.
Three other people were taken to North Bay hospital with injuries.
Investigators say roads were wet at the time of the collision and the sky was cloudy.