NEWS RELEASE
SOUTH SIMCOE POLICE SERVICE
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INNISFIL -- South Simcoe Police Service officers are appealing for witnesses to a two-vehicle, head-on collision in Innisfil that sent six people to hospital.
Around 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, May 22, 2019, police, Innisfil Fire and Rescue Service and County of Simcoe Paramedics responded to a two-vehicle collision on the 9th Line in Innisfil.
The head-on collision involved a Volkswagen Jetta and a Ford 150 pickup truck.
A 50-year-old Innisfil man who was driving the pickup truck and his 16-year-old male passenger, also from Innisfil, were treated in hospital for minor injuries and released.
A 23-year-old Innisfil man driving the Jetta and his 27-year-old female passenger from Barrie are both listed in serious but stable condition after being airlifted by Ornge air ambulance to a Toronto trauma centre.
Two girls in the Jetta, aged 2 and 8, were taken to a local hospital. The eight-year-old girl was subsequently transported by land ambulance to a Toronto hospital where she is in serious but stable condition. The two-year-old girl has been released.
The road was closed for several hours but has since re-opened.
Anyone with information regarding this collision is asked to contact Constable Rob Griffin at 705-436-2141, 905-775-3311 extension 2030 or email rob.griffin@southsimcoepolice.
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