A head-on collision between two commercial vehicles on Sudbury’s Highway 17 bypass has left one driver dead and the other hospitalized with serious injuries overnight. Emergency crews were called to the scene around 1:15 a.m. Friday, Ontario Provincial Police said in a news release. “One driver was pronounced deceased at the scene, while the second driver was transported by (emergency medical services) to the local hospital with serious, but non-life-threatening injuries,” OPP said eight hours later. Police identified the victim as a 51-year-old from Cambridge, Ont., in an update on Monday. The highway reopened around 7 p.m. Friday. An investigation is underway into the cause by the OPP collision reconstructionist and traffic collision investigation team. The crash site is located closer to the Kingsway than the Highway 69 junction, he added.
