Police have identified the Good Samaritan killed in a multi-vehicle crash, Tuesday morning, north of Barrie, as a Parry Sound-area man who was a volunteer firefighter and former police auxiliary officer in his hometown.

Steven Fleming, 52, of McDougall Township, was a longtime Bell Canada employee.
 
Southern Georgian Bay OPP officers responded to the scene around 10 a.m., where they found vehicle debris strewn across the highway near Honey Harbour in Georgian Bay Township, about an hour north of Barrie.
 
An unexpected winter storm had swept in off Georgian Bay, hammering the area with wet snow and hail, which instantly turned to ice when it hit the highway. The severe weather initially caused a four-vehicle crash near Whites Falls Road around 10 a.m., followed by a second crash shortly afterward.
 
"It was just a very freak combination of Mother Nature coming together all in one area and pretty much depositing whatever she could," Const. Peter Leon said Wednesday morning from OPP headquarters in Orillia. "It was rain, sleet, hail, snow you name, they got it. It made the road very, very slippery. As a result, there was a chain reaction-type (sequence) of events in the area."
 
Two Bell Canada employees, including Fleming, stopped to assist a driver involved in the initial collision when a second crash happened north of their location.
 
Fleming was struck and killed by a southbound vehicle, which was sliding on the slippery road, as he went to help the driver of another vehicle involved in the second crash after it struck a rock cut.
 
Provincial police said Fleming had been a volunteer firefighter for more than eight years with the McDougall Township Fire Department, as well as an auxiliary officer with the Parry Sound OPP detachment.
 
Four other people were taken by ambulance to Huronia District Hospital in Midland for medical treatment following the crash.