Highway 17 Accident

The Special Investigations Unit has released the identities oftwo people killed in a head-on collision near Sturgeon Falls.

The S-I-U says 20-year-old Angele Penasse of Sturgeon Falls and 23-year-old Ghislain Gareau of Verner died in Sunday night's collision.

The O-P-P have said they were making an arrest at a RIDE checkpoint when Gareau fled the scene, then used a spike belt to stop the vehicle.

But the driver kept going and hit an eastbound vehicle on Highway 17.

Both drivers died at the scene.