Police in Barrie, Ont., say six young adults were on their way to a casino around 6 a.m. last Saturday when their car crashed into a construction site, killing everyone in the vehicle.
New details from the Barrie Police Service shed more light on the deadly crash that devastated the city north of Toronto.
Police say investigators determined the collision at a municipal construction site on a rural road, where the vehicle plunged into a deep ditch, happened just after 6 a.m. on Aug. 27.
That conclusion puts the time of the fatal crash nearly 24 hours before officers arrived at the scene at 2 a.m. on August 28.
The group of four men and two women, all aged between 20 and 23, were reported missing on Saturday.
Police are asking anyone who traveled along McKay Road near the construction site between the afternoon of August 26 and the early morning of August 28 to contact them.
Family and friends have identified those killed in the crash as Curtis King, 22. River Wells, 23; Jason Ono-O’Connor, 22; Luke West, 22; Jersey Mitchell? and Haley Marin.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published on September 8, 2022.
