(SOUTH STORMONT TWP, ON) A driver has now been charged in connection with a collision last summer which resulted in the death of a 14-year-old cyclist.
On the afternoon of Friday, August 30, 2024, the teenager had been riding eastbound on the paved, westbound shoulder of County Road 2, in South Stormont Township, west of Long Sault, when she was struck by a westbound car.
Officers with the Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry (SD&G) Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), the South Stormont Fire Department and Cornwall SDG Paramedics responded to the collision. Life saving measures were attempted but the young woman was pronounced deceased at the scene.
The investigation by SD&G OPP, with assistance from OPP Collision Reconstructionists and Technical Collision Investigators has now been completed.
Karen BRENNAN, age 46 of Ingleside, has been charged under the Highway Traffic Act with careless driving causing death. The accused is scheduled to appear before the Ontario Court of Justice in Cornwall on March 18, 2025.