Clinton News Record, 2015-07-01, Page 22 News Record • Wednesday, July 1, 2015
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A tow truck pulls away the van involved in the early morning crash Wednesday north of Clinton.
One dead and four others injured in crash involving minivan and deer
Hank Daniszewski
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A minivan filled with Lon-
don farm workers crashed last
Wednesday after clipping a
deer, killing one man and
injuring four others in a colli-
sion with echoes of a rural
road disaster near Stratford
three years ago.
Deer have become such a
menace on Ontario roads,
especially in Southwestern
Ontario's vast farm belt
bisected by super -highways,
that one area MPP has called
for a longer hunt to reduce
their numbers.
By some estimates, Ontario
averages as many as 40 deer -
vehicle collisions a day,
though the province's own
counts suggest that's high.
Huron County OPP Const.
Jamie Stanley said the men
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involved in the early -morn-
ing crash north of Clinton
were co-workers at a Wing -
ham -area turkey farm and
were returning home to Lon-
don after working a shift.
Errol Brown, 39, died in
the crash just after 3:30 a.m.
on London Road, also
known as Huron County
Road 4, near Summerhill
Road, OPP said.
Police said the driver,
40 -year-old Mark Hylton of
London, was travelling south
on London Road when the
van clipped the deer, send-
ing the vehicle out of control
off the road, down a steep
embankment and across a
muddy field before it
slammed into a ditch.
"Speed was certainly a fac-
tor as well as the lack of
occupant restraint," said
Stanley, noting the two men
wearing seatbelts were the
least injured.
Brown, in the van's third row,
was not wearing a seatbelt.
Hylton and 40 -year-old
Lyle Riddell, a passenger,
were flown to hospital in
London with non -life-
threatening injuries.
Two other Londoners,
Eloid Drummond, 42, and
Lloyd Cohen, 27, were taken
to hospital and later
discharged.
In 2012, in one of Ontar-
io's worst road crashes, 10
farm workers from South
America died when their
van hit a stake truck at a
rural intersection in Hamp-
stead, near Stratford.
Trucker Chris Fulton of
London, who was returning
home for his wedding anni-
versary, also was killed.
The farm workers had just
finished a shift as chicken
catchers, a gruelling job that
— like turkey catching —
involves rounding up birds
for vaccination or transpor-
tation in barns that are often
hot, dark and dusty.
One of the men in last
Wednesday's crash was a
migrant farm worker who
had been injured in a previ-
ous accident.
Drummond is a native of
Jamaica who has been
doing greenhouse and
other farm work in Canada
for eight months of the year
since 2006. He gained
media attention after he
fought an attempt to drop
him from the federal sea-
sonal workers program
after he was injured by a
car in Exeter in 2010.
The Huron County crash
adds to what the OPP say has
been a unusually deadly
month on Ontario roads.
There have been 28 deaths
in 24 crashes on OPP-
patrolled roads since the
start of June.
Gerard Creces chosen as federal NDP candidate for Huron Bruce
Dave Flaherty
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Gerard Creces will be join-
ing the world that he
reported on for the past
decade.
Creces, a former reporter
with the Goderich Signal
Star and Clinton News
Record, was selected as the
federal NDP candidate for
Huron -Bruce on Thursday
evening.
He beat out Jan Johnstone,
who previously ran for the
NDP, federally in 1997 and
provincially last year.
Creces said it is imperative
for the party to reach out to
younger voters and get them
involved with the future of
the country.
Speaking to NDP support-
ers at the MacKay Centre in
Goderich, Creces said he ran
his campaign with a very
small budget and limited
amount of resources.
He listed important issues
Contributed photo
Gerard Creces speaks to the local NDP members after winning
the nomination for Huron -Bruce in this fall's federal election.
as committing to an inquiry
regarding 1,200 missing
Indigenous women in Can-
ada, Bill C-51, which he says
treats all Canadians as "sus-
pects'; transpacific partner-
ships and their effects on
supply management
agreements.
Also, he believes corporate
taxes breaks and easement on
laws regarding foreign takeo-
vers are not creating jobs but
only helping pad the profits of
companies, while young peo-
ple are working minimum
wage jobs.
Creces said working in
the capacity of a journalist
has afforded him the ability
to meet many people in the
riding and given him a
certain extent of "name
recognition".
However, he said he has to
get the word out on his plan
for Huron -Bruce.
He was highly active on
social media during his
quest for nomination, post-
ing daily videos on Facebook
and YouTube.
According to Creces, these
types of tools are valuable in
reaching the younger gener-
ation of voters.
To him, the time is now for
the NDP to strike will the
iron is hot.
"We have the numbers to
make a difference," he said.
Visibly moved by his vic-
tory, Creces thanked his
supporters.
"You have put a lot of faith
in me and I'm going to live
up to your expectations," he
said.
"This is the best chance
we've ever had. We can't
squander it, it's time to take
the power back," Creces said.