Two people are dead and three injured, including a child, following a five-vehicle collision in Georgina on Thursday.

The crash happened a few minutes before noon on Hwy. 48, north of Old Homestead Rd.

Ontario Provincial Police Sgt. Kerry Schmidt said the collision involved three transport trucks, a commercial vehicle and a passenger vehicle.

York Region communications supervisor Kylie-Anne Doerner said two people were found without vital signs and pronounced dead at the scene.

Schmidt said one of the victims was in the passenger vehicle and the other victim was in the commercial vehicle.

Ornge communications officer Rachel Scott said they airlifted a child, 10, ith serious injuries to the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto.

The O.P.P.’s Schmidt confirmed the child is now in stable condition.

Ornge’s Scott said another patient who was trapped in a vehicle has been airlifted to Sunnybrook Hospital with serious, but not life-threatening, injuries.

A third person was taken to hospital with minor injuries, Schmidt said. He said this was a “devastating crash” that “crumpled these cars unrecognizably.” The momentum of the trucks colliding with the vehicles caused catastrophic damage, he explained.

OPP are investigating and believe some of the vehicles involved were stopped while traveling northbound on the highway, and they were hit from behind by vehicles travelling at a much higher speed, Schmidt said.

All lanes were closed on Hwy. 48 between Old Homestead Rd. and High St. but they have since reopened.