Police investigate fatal Gravenhurst crash
Posted July 22, 2012 7:22 pm.
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Ontario Provincial Police are investigating a fatal off-road vehicle crash in Gravenhurst, Ont.
The collision happened on Southwood Road shortly after 6 a.m. on Saturday.
A woman and a man left a home in the area around 4 a.m.
They had been drinking, police said, and neither of them was wearing a helmet when the driver lost control on a turn.
The man went back to the home for help. He was later taken to Sunnybrook hospital with serious injuries.
Heather Parr, 20, of Guelph, Ont., was pronounced dead at the scene.
OPP are investigating.
Meanwhile, police are investigating two serious crashes in Bracebridge.
A single-vehicle car crash on Saturday left a woman in police custody.
Police located a car that had allegedly been stolen from a business around 3 p.m. Officers set up a road block on Muskoka Beach Road and other officers followed the driver.
The driver crashed into a wooded area off the shoulder of the road, eventually rolling the vehicle and ending up in the front yard of a home.
The driver then took off on foot.
Police arrested the driver a short distance from the car. She was not injured in the crash, police said.
Vikki Ann Krishko, 31, is charged with theft of a motor vehicle, flight from police, driving while disqualified, impaired operation of a motor vehicle, operation with over 80 mgs and dangerous operation of a motor vehicle.
On Sunday, police said a motorcyclist that was heading north on Manitoba Street attempted to pass two other motorcyclists around 10 a.m.
The driver was traveling at a high rate of speed and lost control crossing a rough train crossing, police said.
He was thrown from the bike and later taken to a Toronto hospital with serious but not life-threatening injuries.
Police said his motorcycle was found about 60 metres from where he left the road.
There’s no word yet on charges.
