Deadly long weekend with 6 drownings, 6 fatal crashes

A deadly long weekend has left at least 12 people dead, with six drowning and six fatal crashes on Ontario’s roads, trails and waterways.

Ontario Provincial Police identified a teenage girl who was killed in a single-vehicle crash in Muskoka on Monday evening.

Stouffville teen Sara Nicole Girard was killed in a single-vehicle crash near Burk’s Falls. Two other young people in the vehicle were injured.

Meanwhile, police are probing a fatal crash in Caledon and another near Walkerton. Sgt. Dave Woodford said police are also investigating a fatal ATV crash near Leamington.

In the Caledon crash, officers said a pickup that was travelling south Sunday on Hwy. 10 struck a motorcyclist that was turning left onto Old Baseline Road from the highway.

The motorcyclist, a 49-year-old Mississauga man, was pronounced dead at the scene.

York region police confirmed another motorcyclist died after a two-vehicle crash at Highway 7 and Leslie Street on Sunday.

And a Guelph man was killed near Owen Sound. Andrew Blewett, 29, died in hospital after his car rolled over early Sunday.

The OPP said Tuesday they had laid 8,763 charges for various traffic related offences, including 5,062 speeding, 63 stunt driving charges, 461 seatbelt charges and 122 impaired-driving charges.

At least six people drowned.

The body of Charles Urquhart Spencer, 30, was pulled out of Peterborough’s Little Lake on Sunday night and was scheduled to be taken to Toronto for an autopsy. Friends have set up a Facebook group for Spencer, remembering him as a loud, outspoken man who loved to have a good time.

A 27-year-old Toronto man drowned in the Welland River in Niagara Falls around 6:30 p.m. on Sunday and another 27-year-old man drowned in Lake Huron at Grand Bend at about the same time.

The body of a 79-year-old man was pulled out of Lake Huron in Saugeen Shores on Saturday. His name hasn’t been released.

And a body was pulled from the Ottawa River on Monday in a spot near the Deschenes Rapids where two men are believed to have drowned on Saturday.

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