Bracebridge OPP confirmed this morning that the driver of a car involved in an accident yesterday on Hwy 118 W has been charged under the Highway Traffic Act.
Police report that they received multiple 911 calls starting at 1:09 pm on Oct. 21. Emergency services attended an accident involving a motorcycle and a car on Hwy 118 W in Bracebridge. The road was closed down for some time and the operator of the motorcycle was transported to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Bracebridge OPP noted this is the second serious motorcycle crash in that area of Hwy 118 in recent memory.
In August of 2023, a motorcyclist was killed following in an accident in nearly the same location.
In September 2023 Bracebridge Town council formally requested that the District of Muskoka conduct a review of the section of Hwy 118 which runs through the Balls Flats area of town. The road is technically the responsibility of the District of Muskoka so the proposal was to request the District investigate safety along a stretch of road beginning at Manitoba Street to just over one km down Hwy 118.
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The planning of the area known as the ‘flats’ (shopping plazas on 118 and on Wellington) is non existent. A complete failure of the Planning Department and Councils over the years. The area should have looked like an extension of the Main Street. One should not need to drive from one store to another.
Clean up the mess. The roads, parking lots, vehicle exits, sidewalks are a hodge lodge. Do a new plan and maybe start with two roundabouts at either end. Proper sidewalks wide enough for separate bike paths Stores near the road and ability to walk in safety from one to the other. Make it look like Muskoka and not a suburb of the GTA.
If one is concerned that speed is an issue on 118 then there’s a simple solution…have the District start using photo radar!
And the income could be used to support the new hospital.