An Ontario Provincial Police cruiser.  (Photo courtesy of the OPP)An Ontario Provincial Police cruiser. (Photo courtesy of the OPP)
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OPP investigate two fatal crashes

Police are investigating two fatal crashes in the region, one in Perth County southeast of Stratford and a another west of Drayton in Wellington County.

The crash in Perth County was reported just after 12:30 p.m. Monday on Line 29 at Road 111 in the Perth East.

Police say a passenger vehicle and a commercial motor vehicle collided and the passenger vehicle rolled.

One persone had to be extricated from that vehicle and was pronounced deceased at hospital.

No other details have been released at this time.

The fatal crash west of Drayton happened late in the afternoon at the intersection of Wellington Roads 8 and 10.

Police haven't released any other details of that crash, but the area around the crash was closed for several hours into the evening.

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