Man in his 60s killed after car strikes large granite boulder east of Toronto
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A man in his 60s is dead after his vehicle left the road and struck a large granite boulder east of Toronto on Saturday. Just after 2 p.m., emergency crews were called to Regional Road 20 in Clarington for a single-vehicle crash. Police said in a release issued the next day that the driver had been travelling west when he struck the boulder on the north side of the road. The driver, a 61-year-old man from Oakwood, was pronounced dead at the scene, the release states. The collision is...

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