Teen dead after New Year’s Eve crash in Ontario

A teenager is dead after a head-on crash in Ontario on New Year’s Eve.

Ontario Provincial Police said that emergency crews responded to a collision on Wellington Road 21 near 4th Line East in Centre Wellington Township, which is west of Guelph, just after 7 a.m. on Tuesday.

“Upon arrival, emergency services located the involved vehicles: a passenger car and minivan which had collided head-on,” police said.

The drivers, who were the only occupants in the vehicles, were taken to a local hospital, where one of them was pronounced dead, police said.

The deceased was an 18-year-old resident of Centre Wellington Township.

The second driver was later airlifted to a Hamilton hospital to be treated for injuries that are believed to be non-life-threatening, police said.

The cause of the crash is under investigation.