THUNDER BAY – Police have released the identity of the man who was killed following a highway crash Monday.
Officials with the Thunder Bay detachment of the OPP confirmed Tuesday morning that Dale Thomas Gimblett, 56, of Beaumont, Alta., was pronounced dead at the scene of a crash on Highway 11/17.
Police responded to the crash in the Municipality of Shuniah near the McTavish Dump, about one kilometres east of Silver Lake Road.
Police say a single commercial tractor trailer unit was travelling east when it left the roadway and came to a stop in a nearby ditch.
Hydro lines were damaged as a result of the crash.
The investigation into the crash and the man’s death remains under investigation.
A post-mortem examination will take place in Thunder Bay.
