Marine Collision – One Deceased, 5 Sent To Hospital

(GEORGIAN BAY TOWNSHIP, ON) – On August 3rd, 2013 at approximately 11:15 p.m., members of the Southern Georgian Bay Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), Georgian Bay Fire Department and Simcoe County Paramedic Service responded to report the a vessel had collided with a small island in Six Mile Lake.

An initial OPP investigation revealed that 2 vessels were traveling together the first one went around the island but the second vessel did not and collided with it.

Tragically a passenger in the second vessel a 70 year old female from Kingston, Ontario is deceased. The operator of this vessel a 46 year old male from Athens, Ontario has been transported to Saint Michael’s Hospital in Toronto with serious but not life threatening injuries. 4 other passengers in this vessel; 36 year old female and 15 month male both from Athens, Ontario and a 13 year old male and 11 year old female both from Toledo, Ontario all have been transported to Georgian Bay General Hospital with various but nonlife threatening injuries.

Deceased is Beverly MACDONALD 70 years old from Kingston, Ontario.

The investigation into this tragic marine collision is ongoing with the assistance of our OPP Central Region Technical Traffic Collision Investigation Unit.

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