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Toronto Sun
2 days ago
- Toronto Sun
Teen dies after small plane crashes into Lake Scugog dock
A teen boy was killed Friday afternoon after a small plane crashed into a dock on Lake Scugog. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. SUBSCRIBE TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. REGISTER / SIGN IN TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account. Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments. Enjoy additional articles per month. Get email updates from your favourite authors. THIS ARTICLE IS FREE TO READ REGISTER TO UNLOCK. Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments Enjoy additional articles per month Get email updates from your favourite authors Don't have an account? Create Account Durham Regional Police said officers from the North Division responded to a plane crash in the area of Williams Point Rd. in Caesarea, 15 kilometres east of Port Perry. When officers arrived at the scene, police said they located a plane that had crashed into a dock as well as another boat. Despite the plane resting upside down in the water, the pilot and a passenger managed to get out with only minor injuries, cops said. A 16-year-old boy was on a dock at the time and was struck by the plane, police said. He died of his injuries at the scene. Investigators are not releasing the identities of the victim and two passengers at this time, and authorities are requesting privacy for the teen's family. 'Our thoughts remain with the male's family and those impacted by this tragedy,' police said in a statement Saturday. Members of Durham police as well as officials with the Transportation Safety Board of Canada remain at the scene and are continuing their investigation, cops said. Anyone with information about this investigation is asked to contact Sgt. Naccarato of North Division Criminal Investigation Bureau at 1-888-579-1520 ext. 2686. World MMA Toronto & GTA Celebrity Tennis
Toronto Sun
3 days ago
- General
- Toronto Sun
Teen dies after being struck by plane that crashed on Lake Scugog: Durham police
Published Jul 18, 2025 • < 1 minute read A Durham Regional Police vehicle. Photo by Kevin Connor / Files / Toronto Sun Durham Region police say a teenager has died after being struck by a small plane that crashed on Lake Scugog. Police say the plane crash happened this afternoon in the small community of Caesarea, north of Oshawa, Ont. They say a male in his teens died after he was struck by the plane, while the pilot and the plane passenger were both taken to hospital with minor injuries. It was not immediately clear if the teen was in the water when the plane crashed. Police say the Transportation Safety Board of Canada will be taking over the investigation at the scene. No other details were immediately released. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. SUBSCRIBE TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. REGISTER / SIGN IN TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account. Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments. Enjoy additional articles per month. Get email updates from your favourite authors. THIS ARTICLE IS FREE TO READ REGISTER TO UNLOCK. Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments Enjoy additional articles per month Get email updates from your favourite authors Don't have an account? Create Account MMA Toronto & GTA Tennis Celebrity Sunshine Girls
Global News
3 days ago
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- Global News
Teenage boy dies after plane crashes into Ontario lake, hitting dock
A teenage boy has died after being struck by a plane at a lake northeast of Toronto. Around 12:30 p.m. Friday, Durham Regional Police said they were called to Lake Scugog, near Caesarea, Ont., for reports of a small plane crash, which had resulted in injuries. Later, police said a male teenager had died after he was hit by the plane. They said the pilot and passenger of the plane were both taken to hospital with minor injuries. Get breaking National news For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen. Sign up for breaking National newsletter Sign Up By providing your email address, you have read and agree to Global News' Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy Aerial images of the scene appear to show a yellow plane crashed into a dock on the edge of the lake. Caesarea is a small community of around 800 people, nestled on the eastern shore of Lake Ontario. It is about 40 km northeast of Oshawa. The Transportation Safety Board of Canada, which investigates air and marine incidents, said it was looking into what happened. Story continues below advertisement The agency said it was 'deploying a team of investigators following a floatplane accident that occurred earlier today in Lake Scugog near Caesarea, Ontario.' More to come…
Toronto Sun
4 days ago
- Toronto Sun
MANDEL: 'Incorrigible' speeding menace has day parole yanked for third time
Adam Simeunovich has a lifetime driving ban. Photo by Handout / Durham Regional Police Third time wasn't the charm for serial speedster Adam Simeunovich. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. SUBSCRIBE TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. REGISTER / SIGN IN TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account. Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments. Enjoy additional articles per month. Get email updates from your favourite authors. THIS ARTICLE IS FREE TO READ REGISTER TO UNLOCK. Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments Enjoy additional articles per month Get email updates from your favourite authors Don't have an account? Create Account The 'incorrigible' 47-year-old Oshawa recidivist has just had his third chance at day parole revoked — to the shock of absolutely no one. Less than two weeks after being released in March to a halfway house, police believe the menace under a lifetime driving ban was behind the wheel of his father's pickup and tried to evade them at a high rate of speed — an accusation he 'vehemently denied' to parole officials The parole board didn't believe him — and found he's 're-entered' his offence cycle. Though it sure doesn't look like he ever left it despite being given generous chance after chance during previous hearings. Simeunovich was originally sentenced to 10 years for causing a horrific crash in 2017 while speeding and running red lights through downtown Whitby like a ' deranged maniac, ' T-boning a car and leaving a young father with broken ribs, a shattered pelvis and brain trauma. Your noon-hour look at what's happening in Toronto and beyond. By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. Please try again This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. He then fled on foot only to be arrested with the help of the canine unit. With his criminal record of more than 50 driving-related convictions — 15 for driving while disqualified — and a lifetime driving prohibition, Justice Peter West described Simeunovich as ' being completely incorrigible ' and gave him the unusually stiff sentence. In September 2020, just two years later, he was released on day parole only to have it suspended within two months when he was charged again for driving while prohibited. The board officially revoked his release in March 2021. After a successful appeal, Simeunovich was paroled again in September 2021. Two months later, he was under arrest again for driving while disqualified, failing to comply with parole and possession of a forged driver's licence. His day parole was officially revoked in December 2022 and he was convicted of five counts of operation while prohibited and sentenced to a whopping eight years and five months consecutive to the sentence he was already serving. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Yet somehow, this past January, a different parole board panel decided to give Simeunovich another shot at freedom — over the objections of his parole officer and the local police — and released him in March to a halfway house with conditions that he ' not operate a motor or electric vehicle of any kind. ' RECOMMENDED VIDEO Well, we've seen how well that worked out just 12 days later. Simeunovich initially claimed he couldn't be the one driving because he was with his employer at the time. When his boss didn't back up his timeline, he continued to offer multiple other reasons why it wasn't him, including that the cops had taken down the wrong licence plate. He was then shown video that confirmed it was his dad's truck — his father was out of town and his son was one of only two people who had access to it and the only one with a criminal history of driving like a maniac: 'The video showed the vehicle refusing to stop for police, taking off at a high speed, driving onto the shoulder of the highway and narrowly avoiding a dangerous collision with another vehicle,' the parole decision states. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Simeunovich claimed to be a changed man who wouldn't have violated his lifetime driving ban again. 'You stated that you had come to accept that you could not drive, that you had matured, that you were now much more aware of previous problematic thought processes and how to challenge them,' the board member wrote. Read More 'None of your submissions convince the Board that you could not have been in the vehicle at the time, and it is concerned about the number and nature of the differing explanations you have provided to your CMT (case management team) and others since your suspension,' the decision says. 'Your current presented theory is that it was your friend driving the vehicle, although as CSC (Correctional Service of Canada) today pointed out, he has no criminal record or concerning driving history.' No halfway house in the area wants him and there's 'very strong opposition' from the police to lifting his day parole suspension. The board concluded Simeunovich presents 'an undue risk to society if released' and his day parole was revoked yet again. Making our streets safer — at least for now. mmandel@ Toronto & GTA Toronto & GTA MMA Tennis Toronto Maple Leafs
CTV News
5 days ago
- CTV News
Police catch man driving in Whitby while prohibited, licence suspended and allegedly impaired
A Durham Regional Police cruiser is seen in this undated photo. A 35-year-old man is facing several charges, including impaired driving, after failing a breath test during a traffic stop in Whitby on Wednesday morning. Durham Regional Police said officers were proactively patrolling Dundas Street East and Brock Street around 2 a.m. when they stopped a vehicle. The driver allegedly provided fake documents and as a result, he was arrested. 'After the arrest, officers suspected the suspect had been drinking, so they gave him a roadside breath test—which he failed,' police said. Officers were later able to confirm the driver's identity and found out that he was not allowed to drive because his licence was suspended and he was legally prohibited from operating a vehicle. The driver has been charged with impersonation to avoid arrest, obstructing a peace officer, impaired operation, two counts of procuring to be made, possessing, transferring, or selling the identity document of another, two counts of driving a motor vehicle while suspended, and three counts of operation while prohibited.
