Alcohol possible factor in crash that killed 4 Ontario seniors
Last Updated: Sunday, November 25, 2007 | 12:22 PM ET
CBC News
Alcohol may have been a factor in a head-on crash that killed four women, all senior citizens, as they were returning home from a church dinner in southwestern Ontario Saturday, police said.
The women were travelling in a Ford Focus when a minivan heading in the opposite direction collided with their vehicle shortly before 7 p.m. in Chatham, about 270 kilometres southwest of Toronto, according to police.
Three women were pronounced dead at the scene while a fourth died en route to a hospital in Chatham. All were trapped in the wreckage and had to be cut from the car, police said.
The driver of the van, a 47-year-old Chatham man, suffered serious but non-life-threatening injuries and was taken to hospital.
"At this point alcohol is believed to have played a factor in this tragic accident," Insp. Ed Reed of Chatham-Kent police said in a news release on Sunday.
At that point, no charges had been laid.
Police said no names would be released until the victims' families were notified.
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