BY CRAIG GILBERT
One person is dead following a collision on the Highway 17 southwest bypass near Fielding Road early Thursday evening.
According to Ontario Provincial Police, a car turned onto the bypass from Kantola Road directly into the path of an eastbound transport trailer carrying 36 cattle at about 7:10 pm.
The name of the driver was being withheld by police pending notification of next of kin at Northern Life press time Friday.
Seventeen of the cattle on the truck were either killed in the collision or had to be put down as a result of their injuries.
The driver of the transport was treated for minor injuries at Sudbury Regional Hospital and released.
The highway was closed in both directions shortly after the collision. It was reopened shortly before 11 am Friday.
This crash is the fifth motor vehicle fatality Sudbury OPP have responded to since the end of May.
Bradley Liebrecht, 37, was killed in a collision June 3 on Highway 144 near the Onaping Lake turnoff when the car he was a passenger in crossed the centre line.
Muriel Lachance, 66, was killed after she slammed into a transport coming out of the Mr. Gas in Wahnipitae July 16.
Ruby Maloney, 74, of Cambridge was killed on Highway 69 July 28 in a two-vehicle collision south of Old Wanup Road.
Anna Russell of Woodstock was killed five kilometres south of Estaire on Highway 69 Aug. 18.
There have been many more vehicle accidents with serious injuries, though, according to Sudbury OPP communications officer Const. Laura Houliston.
