Members of the Huntsville Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) are investigating a serious motor vehicle collision on Highway 60 in the Town of Huntsville.
On September 6th, 2023, at approximately 6:00 pm, Huntsville OPP, Muskoka Paramedic Services, and Huntsville-Lake of Bays Fire Department, were dispatched to a motor vehicle collision on Highway 60 in the area of Fairyview Drive. Two sport utility vehicles were involved in the collision. A 40-year-old male driver was transported to a Toronto area trauma center with life-threatening injuries. A 32-year-old female driver was transported to hospital with minor injuries.
The OPP Traffic Incident Management and Enforcement (TIME) team are assisting with the investigation. The area has since been re-opened to traffic.
Anyone who may have witnessed the collision is asked to call Huntsville OPP at 1(888)310-1122 or call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477. You can submit your information online at www.crimestopperssdm.com if you have any information on this crime or any other crime. Crime Stoppers does not subscribe to call display and you will remain anonymous. Being anonymous, you will not testify in court and your information may lead to a cash reward of up to $2,000.
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brian tapley says
I hate this piece of highway. It is a planning and psychological disaster! It is quite unnecessary to have 4 lanes here in the winter season, but we have to bear the cost of plowing it all off and salting the heck out of it. Despite the ever more urban environment in which it exists, there are no decent and safe sidewalks, or equivalent to be seen and in winter you see brave souls walking on the actual roadway as there is no other place to be if you are not in a vehicle. By mid winter the snowbanks become monuments to the strength of the wing on the plow!
After coming many miles from the Park or Ottawa, drivers encounter the 4 lane part near Huntsville.
What do you do when you go from a 2 lane road to a 4 lane road… well most drivers seem to speed up, this despite the actual drop in speed limit as you get closer to Huntsville’s downtown.
Then you have the lane decrease back to 2 going up the hill past Home Depot and our past Deerhurst, both of which encourage the “amateur drag racer in the right lane”, a dangerous tactic, if not totally illegal.
Add in the multitude of intersections and commercial entrances as you approach the Muskoka Rd. 3 lights and you have a recipe for disasters.
The street lighting at night helps a bit, but I wonder at what cost for lights and energy? I’m sure MTO has an algorithm for when to install street lighting.
The piece de resistance is the stoplights out by the Deerhurst end of the 4 lane section. There is something “wrong” with the design of these lights. I know this as one seldom sees more black rubber marks on a road than you see near these lights. If the intersection is working correctly there should not be this waste of brakes on a continuing basis.
David Gordon says
Concerning the lights on this stretch. Seems to me if we moved toward traffic circles where these lights are not only would it slow down traffic but keep it all moving at the same time. The traffic circles would be most beneficial when the lights are out due to weather and this seems to be happening more ofter. I am not sure why Huntsville seems to be adverse to something that is prevalent elsewhere.