Sault OPP news release…

(UNINCORPORATED TERRITORY, ON) – On Monday, August 6, 2019 at 12:44 a.m. members of the Superior East Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) with the assistance of the Algoma Emergency Medical Services (EMS) and the Wawa Fire Department responded to a report of a motor vehicle collision on Highway 17 approximately 30 kilometres south of Wawa, Ontario.

 

The investigation has revealed that a south bound single motor vehicle left the roadway striking a rock cut. Four occupants of the motor vehicle were uninjured however, Choudhry Nouman Ahmed TARIQ, 41 year old male from Brampton, Ontario was pronounced deceased at the scene.

 

The OPP Technical Collision Investigators are continuing their investigation.