Two people dead after head-on crash in southern Ontario

Two drivers have died following a head-on crash in southern Ontario on Thursday night.

Emergency crews responded to the two-vehicle collision on Highbury Avenue North between Thirteen and Fourteen Mile Roads in Middlesex Centre at 7:40 p.m. on March 5, the Ontario Provincial Police said.  Middlesex Centre is a township neighbouring London, Ontario.

The drivers and lone occupants of both vehicles were transported to hospital with life-threatening injuries, the OPP said.

As a result of the collision, both drivers, a 75-year-old of St. Thomas and a 28-year-old of Georgian Bluffs, were pronounced dead at the hospital, police said.

Highbury Avenue North was closed for the investigation.

Anyone with information regarding this incident can contact the OPP at 1-888-310-1122 or online at www.opp.ca/reporting.

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