(SOUTH FRONTENAC, ON) – At approximately 11:45 PM on November 6, 2014 members of the Frontenac Ontario Provincial Police were dispatched to a single motor vehicle collision on Perth Road just south of Perth Road Village. A north bound vehicle, driven by a twenty year old woman, lost control and left the roadway coming to rest in a small body of water.
A local volunteer firefighter passing by saw the lights of the car in the water and stopped to assist. He swam out to the vehicle and was able to cut the seat belt of the driver, pull her out of the badly damaged car and bring her to shore where two other citizens who had now stopped, assisted in removing her from the water and to the road where first aid was given until emergency services arrived at the scene. The woman was transported by ambulance to Kingston General Hospital where she was pronounced dead.
The OPP deployed a Collision Reconstructionist and a Technical Collision Investigator to the scene to assist in conducting a thorough investigation.
Perth Road was closed for seven hours while all pertinent data and evidence was collected.
The name of the victim is been withheld pending next of kin notification.