{"id":147958,"date":"2025-08-15T13:56:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T13:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/147958\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T13:56:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T13:56:12","slug":"teen-dead-3-others-hurt-after-watercraft-collision-on-ontario-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/147958\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen dead, 3 others hurt after watercraft collision on Ontario lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>The Ontario Provincial Police say a teenage girl is dead and three other girls were hurt after a single watercraft collision on an Ontario lake.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>OPP said they were called to Lake St. Clair near Coutour Beach in the Municipality of Lakeshore, just east of Windsor, on Thursday at around 2 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>First responders rescued four teens from the lake with the help of nearby residents, OPP said.<\/p>\n<p>A 17-year-old girl from Essex County was taken to hospital where she died from her injuries, police said.<\/p>\n<p>OPP said a 16-year-old girl was taken to hospital but was then airlifted to a trauma centre with life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/national.jpg\" alt=\"For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet breaking National news<\/p>\n<p>For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.<\/p>\n<p>A third and fourth teen, a 15-year-old girl and 17-year-old girl, were taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>There were no other watercrafts involved.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to contact police.<\/p>\n<p>Several marine incidents reported in Ontario this summer<\/p>\n<p>The OPP have put out several press releases regarding marine incidents, as well as drownings across the province this summer.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<ul class=\"l-inlineStories__posts c-posts c-posts--inline \">\n<li class=\"c-posts__item\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11334893\/lottery-winner-arrested-kicking-police-officer-kentucky\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ky-linda-grizzle-and-shannon-farthing-800_824cdf.webp\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tBodycam shows lotto winner\u2019s arrest day after collecting $167-million prize\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li class=\"c-posts__item\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11334870\/air-canada-cancelling-flights-before-strike\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1755266172_574_Air-Canada-Flight-Attendants-Aug.-14.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tWhy is Air Canada cancelling flights before a strike actually happens?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The OPP reported at the end of July that <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11302306\/10-drownings-ontario-opp-water-safety\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">10 people have died in marine incidents in eastern Ontario<\/a>\u00a0so far this summer \u2014 more than double the number recorded by this time last year.<\/p>\n<p>The warning comes amid a series of devastating incidents that have already taken place in Ontario waters.<\/p>\n<p>At a provincial park beach in Lake Erie, a 35-year-old\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11258635\/ontario-beach-drowning-father-daughter-lake-erie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">man from Woodstock, Ont., drowned<\/a> while trying to save his daughter. She survived, but his body was recovered the following day.<\/p>\n<p>In another tragic incident, <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11269772\/drowning-ontario-beach-lake-huron\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an 18-year-old swimmer was pulled<\/a>\u00a0from Ipperwash Beach unresponsive and later died in hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Then, just days later, a 44-year-old man died after\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11270111\/ontario-beach-death-lake-huron-ipperwash-beach\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">diving from a boat into shallow water,<\/a>\u00a0the second fatality there in the same week.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Toronto<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2025 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size The Ontario Provincial Police say a teenage girl is dead&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":147959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2147,50,9629],"class_list":{"0":"post-147958","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-canada","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-water-safety"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115033131398120402","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}