WAWA, Ont. -- A Highway 17 crash near Wawa has claimed four lives and hospitalized five others.
The two-vehicle collision happened at 10:20 p.m. on Sunday about 15 kilometres south of Wawa, provincial police said late Monday afternoon.
The OPP said a northbound vehicle with five occupants collided with a southbound vehicle with four occupants. Two of the southbound vehicle's occupants were pronounced dead at the scene, while two of the people in the northbound vehicle have since died.
Police are withholding the identification of the victims, pending notification of the next of kin.
The highway had been closed until Monday afternoon but has since been reopened.
The OPP continue to investigate with the assistance of their technical traffic collision investigators.
