The accident occurred on June 6
The Ottawa Police Service is looking for witnesses or people with dashcam footage to come forward regarding an accident involving farm equipment.
A vehicle struck farm equipment on June 6 at Twin Elm Road and Brophy Drive around 6 p.m.
The accident resulted in two people requiring hospitalization.
“Two teens were taken to (Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario) with life-threatening injuries,” Ottawa police say in a June 7 press release.
The person operating the farm equipment was uninjured.
Anyone with information regarding the accident is asked to contact the Ottawa Police Service Fatal Collision Investigation Unit at 613-236-1222, extension 2345.
Anonymous tips can also be submitted through Crime Stoppers.
The incident in Ottawa is at least the second to result in life-threatening injuries.
In May, a transport truck and a tractor collided in Lambton County.
"One individual was transported to a trauma hospital by Ornge air ambulance with life-threatening injuries," Lambton County OPP said in a statement.
Motor vehicle drivers and farm equipment operators should work together to share the road.
“We all need to make it a priority to take the extra few seconds or minutes to pass farm equipment safely,” the Ontario Federation of Agriculture says on its website.
Federal data shows slow moving vehicles (40km or slower) are almost 5 times more likely to be involved in a fatal collision per kilometre on the road compared to other motor vehicles.
And between 2011 and 2020, seven people died in Ontario because of a traffic collision, according to Canadian Agricultural Injuring Reporting data.