A small northern Ontario town is in mourning following a crash in the early morning hours on Saturday that killed four young people.<\/p>\n
At around 3:20 a.m. police responded to a collision between an all-terrain-vehicle (ATV) and a transport truck in Moonbeam.<\/p>\n
All four people aboard the ATV were killed in the crash.<\/p>\n
Police said a 16-year-old, two 18-year-olds and a 20-year-old were all pronounced dead at the scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In a statement the municipality said flags at municipal buildings would be flying at half-mast out of respect for the victims, identified as Audric, Audrie, Carley\u00a0and Lo\u00efc.<\/p>\n
Moonbeam Mayor Luc L\u00e9onard told CBC News he would not be releasing their last names out of respect for their families.<\/p>\n
L\u00e9onard said everyone in the community of around 1,200 people has been affected by the crash.<\/p>\n
“Everybody’s related somehow,” he said. “And if it’s not by blood, it’s by friendship.”<\/p>\n
L\u00e9onard said the community has been mourning their losses together.<\/p>\n
“It’s inconceivable for the mothers. It’s a very hard time,” he said.<\/p>\n
Guy Boucher manages the Moonbeam Golf Club. One of the young people killed in the crash, Carley, worked for him.<\/p>\n
“Carley was beautiful inside and out,” he said.\u00a0 “She was the kindest person, and I know these all sound clich\u00e9, but it’s true. She was so kind, so strong, so smart.”<\/p>\n
Boucher said another victim was his cousin’s son.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Everybody knew all the kids,” he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“All the kids either, all grew up with each other, [or] they all worked at local businesses here, which made them familiar to everyone.”<\/p>\n
L\u00e9onard, Moonbeam’s mayor, said the municipality will follow the families’ lead regarding a vigil.<\/p>\n
“Whatever they want, we will support them,” he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A small northern Ontario town is in mourning following a crash in the early morning hours on Saturday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79749,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-79748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}