Cloudy start and a good drive as far as Upsala, where traffic comes to a dead stop. We're queued for three quarters of an hour, passed by ambulance and police cars but unable to see the cause of the trouble. A man with two young boys from the car ahead do go on a recce though, and the daughter-in-law tells us that there's a back road - we can follow them. So we detour round on Pipeline road, missing Upsala entirely. Eventually the news catches up with us. The police had set out a spike belt to catch a thief and apprehended him when he ran for the woods. His female accomplice, following, was in a head-on crash. Surprisingly little human carnage, but arrests and drama.
And past Marathon a single car - or to be accurate, truck - accident. More ambulances, at least four police cars, and two fire rescue units pass us. vic tims still in the truck. As we pass, things don't look good - backboard and oxygen in evidence.
Darkness after Wawa, and rain. We stop for the night about thirty km short of Sault Ste Marie.
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