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Ornge, the province’s air ambulance service, is warning people to listen to public health officials and “stay home unless absolutely necessary” as it reports that crews across Ontario are beginning to transport patients injured in ATV crashes to hospital.

The service shared the warning the same day that a 37-year-old from Pembroke was airlifted to hospital in Ottawa.

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Upper Ottawa Valley OPP responded to the crash in which the man was ejected from an ATV on Doran Road in Laurentian Valley Township at about 9:30 p.m. Saturday. The driver suffered serious but not life-threatening injuries and was first taken by ambulance to the local hospital, then transferred to Ottawa.

A second ATV driver at the scene was charged wth with impaired operation and operating with more than 80 mg of alcohol per 100 ml of blood and will appear in court in Pembroke on June 9. The driver’s licence was suspended for 90 days and the ATV was impounded for seven days.

The licence of a third ATV driver at the scene who registered in the “warn” range on an alcohol screening device was suspended for three days.