Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) have laid dangerous driving charges against a 17-year-old after a fatal rollover southwest of Ottawa in May.
A teen passenger was killed and five other teens were injured in the May 9 crash on Burke Settlement Road in Central Frontenac, about 70 kilometres north of Kingston and 105 kilometres southwest of Ottawa.
The Granite Ridge Education Centre in Sharbot Lake said at the time all six were students there, and confirmed the teen who died was a boy.
The school board forwarded CBC a note from the school’s principal saying the crash happened during a lunch break. The principal also noted some of the students involved would have been preparing for graduation.
In a news release on Friday, OPP said the victim was 16.
The accused, who is not being named because of their age, is facing one charge of dangerous driving causing death and four charges of dangerous driving causing bodily harm, police said.
They’re next expected in court in Kingston on Oct. 8.