Ottawa Police say two people are now dead after Christmas Day crash in the city’s west end.

Police, fire crews and Ottawa paramedics were all called to the scene of the “severe” head-on crash on Greenbank Rd. between Hunt Club Rd. and Fallowfield Rd. around 4:15 p.m. on Thursday.

“Paramedics arrived to find three patients with the two drivers being vital signs absent,” said a release from Ottawa Paramedics Operations Superintendant Tim O’Neill.

The 30-year-old male driver of one of the vehicles involved was pronounced dead at the scene, O’Neill said.

A second person in that vehicle, a 32-year-old female, suffered “severe abdominal trauma and back pain”. She was treated and taken to the Ottawa Hospital Trauma Centre in serious condition.

The driver and lone occupant of the other vehicle, a sedan, was found without vital signs at the scene.

Paramedics treated the man, aged 27, for “multi-system trauma” and did their best to resuscitate him en route to hospital. He remained without any vital signs on arrival at the hospital and was listed in critical condition.

Police confirmed on Friday afternoon that man had also died.

“Two cars collided head-on, northbound and southbound,” Ottawa Police Sgt. Steve Gorgichuk said. Police believe one of the vehicles was passing when the crash occurred.

The stretch of Greenbank on which the crash occurred is a long, straight stretch of road which links Barrhaven to the rest of west Ottawa. At the time, road conditions appeared to be dry and visibility was good, though twilight was just beginning to set in.

Identities of the deceased and the injured have not been released, pending notification of next of kin.

Greenbank Rd. reopened at about 10:30 p.m. Friday night.

Police say alcohol and drugs are not considered factors in the crash.

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