Police have identified the two teenage boys and young man killed in a pickup truck crash west of Listowel Monday morning.
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The Huron County OPP lift hoist the pickup truck involved in an accident that killed three people Monday morning out of the ditch along Brussels Line between Cardiff Road and Browntown Road in Huron East.
Huron OPP and emergency crews responded to the single-vehicle collision on Brussels Line between Cardiff and Browntown roads at 7:45 a.m.
The driver of the vehicle, Dennis Linthorst, 17, of Howick Township, along with two other passengers, 19-year-old Ivan Kuepfer of South Bruce and 14-year-old Owen Bakker of Brockton, were pronounced dead at the scene.
A fourth person, whose identity has not been released, was flown to a London hospital with life-threatening injuries. The unidentified passenger remains in hospital Tuesday, police said.
Police closed Brussels Line between Cardiff and Brownstone roads for several hours Monday as they investigated the crash.
The investigation is ongoing and police are asking anyone who may have witnessed the crash to call the OPP at 1-888-310-1122 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS).
Source: The London Free Press