OPP are providing details this morning on efforts to retrieve a transport truck that plunged into Angus Lake just south of Temagami this past weekend.
Tomorrow (Thursday) a cleanup will begin and the tractor-trailer will be pulled from Angus Lake. Motorists will be detoured through Quebec.
Highway 11 will be closed one kilometre north of Rabbit Lake Road, Temagami, in both directions starting at 8 a.m. and will be closed for an undetermined amount of time. Local residents travelling Highway 11, can use the roadway to get to their home or business, as long as they do not cross the area of the closure.
See: Highway 11 north closing for eight hours Thursday
OPP is advising motorists to drive carefully and to use the following detours to avoid the crash scene:
- If you are heading northbound on Highway 11, take Highway 63 in North Bay towards Temiscaming, Quebec, head north on Highway 101 through Quebec and west on Highway 65 East towards New Liskeard
- If you are southbound on Highway 11 to New Liskeard Ontario, take Highway 65 East towards Notre-Dame-du-Nord, Quebec and head southbound on Highway 101 to Highway 63 into North Bay.
Sunday, shortly before 7 a.m., the driver of a tractor-trailer travelling southbound on Highway 11, lost control. The vehicle ended up in Angus Lake.
See: Updated with charge Transport goes into Angus Lake
Members of the Temiskaming Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police, Temagami Fire Department and Nipissing District Emergency Medical Service responded to the call.
For further inquiries about the closure, contact Traffic Operations: 1-888-262-4049. Stantec Consulting will be in charge of the site.
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