Two people were killed and four others are said to have life-threatening injuries following a five-vehicle crash in Bancroft, Ont. on Tuesday afternoon.
Ontario Provincial Police say officers responded to the collision shortly after 3:30 p.m. to Highway 28, near Otter Lake Road.
The crash involved three vehicles and two motorcycles, provincial police said in a news release on .
Two occupants were pronounced dead at the scene.
Two were airlifted to hospital and another two were transported by ground ambulance. All are said to have life-threatening injuries, OPP says.
It’s the second multi-fatal crash on the same eight kilometre section of Highway 28 in four days.Two drivers were killed following a three-motorcycle collision in Faraday, near Bancroft, on Saturday.
An investigation into the crash is ongoing.
The crash site is located 220 kilometres west of Ottawa.
The victims have not been identified.