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Highway 102 crash victim identified as 82-year-old woman

Ware Township woman killed when her vehicle collided with transport.
Highway 102 fatal
Provincial police are investigating a fatal two-vehicle crash on Highway 102 involving a transport and a passenger vehicle on Tuesday, January 29, 2019. (Matt Vis, tbnewswatch.com)

THUNDER BAY -- Provincial police have released the identity of the person killed in Tuesday's fatal two-vehicle crash on Highway 102.

The OPP on Wednesday said 82-year-old Violet Krause of Ware Township was pronounced dead on the scene after her passenger vehicle collided with a transport on the highway at Hill Road.

Krause was the lone occupant of the vehicle, which police said had been turning left off Hill Road to travel east on the highway. The transport had been eastbound at the time of the crash.

The highway had been closed for six hours on Tuesday while the crash was investigated by the OPP's technical collision officers.




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