One person was killed in a head-on crash between two pickup trucks north of Madoc Sunday afternoon.
The crash happened on Highway 62 a little after 1 p.m., according to Ontario Provincial Police. They’d posted on X about a collision north of Bannockburn Road.
A 74-year-old man from Stirling, north of Belleville, who was driving one of the trucks was pronounced dead at the scene, police wrote in a news release Monday.
A 68-year-old passenger was rushed to hospital with serious injuries, police said, as was a 58-year-old passenger in the other truck
The 64-year-old man who was driving the other truck was taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
The highway was closed for several hours and police said they continue to investigate.
Madoc is in Centre Hastings, about 40 kilometres north of Belleville.