SUDBURY, ONT.—One person is dead and two others are injured after two vehicles collided with a moose on Highway 17 in the Sudbury area.

Sudbury OPP say officers responded to the accident late last night.

The two people taken to hospital suffered non-life threatening injuries.

Police say the name of the deceased is being withheld pending notification of next of kin.

The OPP have issued a warning to motorists in northern Ontario about moose on the highways.

They say especially heavy swarms of insects are driving the animals out of the bush and onto roads as they try to escape being eaten alive by the bugs.