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A man has died and a child is in critical condition following a three-vehicle collision outside of Smiths Falls, Ont., that injured three others on Friday afternoon, according to emergency services.
Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to a head-on collision between two cars and an ambulance along Highway 15 in Lombardy, a community southwest of Ottawa, at about 5 p.m., police wrote in a release Saturday.
The driver of one of the cars, a 34-year-old man from the Township of Elizabethtown-Kitley, died at the scene, according to police and paramedics, while a young child in the car was airlifted to the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario in Ottawa.
The ambulance’s driver and passenger were taken to hospital with serious injuries. Police said it was not transporting patients at the time.
The driver of the third vehicle was hospitalized with minor injuries.
Following the collision, Highway 15 between County Road 1 and County Road 5 was closed for several hours but has since reopened.