An Ontario Provincial Police cruiser.  (Photo courtesy of the OPP)An Ontario Provincial Police cruiser. (Photo courtesy of the OPP)
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Police release name of victim in roll over near Mapleton

Police have released the name of man ho died in a roll over near the Town of Mapleton on Sunday.

Police, fire and paramedics were called out Sunday evening around 6:15 to the Fourteenth Line.

An investigation revealed that the operator of the tractor was cutting the grass in the ditch along the roadway when it rolled down the steep embankment and pinned him underneath.

Gordon Thring, 77, of Alma was pronounced dead at the scene.

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