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An small Ontario community is mourning the loss of four teen girls and their coach after they all lost their lives in a fatal crash Friday night.
Messages of condolence are pouring in for the community in and around Walkerton, Ont an hour north west of Guelph.
The coach, 33-year-old Matt Eckert and four female students were returning from a softball tournament when their vehicle collided with a transport truck.
Ontario Provincial Police say the crash happened around 4:30 p.m. Friday at the intersection of Thorndale and Cobble Hills roads in Middlesex County, near London, Ont.
Investigators say an SUV caring the five collided with a transport truck, then hit a second SUV.
Three of the first SUV’s passengers, two 17-year-old girls and a 16-year-old girl, were pronounced dead at the scene.
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Eckert, who was driving the SUV, and another 16-year-old girl who was also in the vehicle, were rushed …
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