A 17-year-old girl is dead and a 16-year-old girl is in hospital with life-threatening injuries following a collision involving a personal watercraft on Lake St. Clair near Couture Beach in the Municipality of Lakeshore Thursday.

The 17-year-old was transported to hospital, where she was pronounced dead, and the 16-year-old was transported to hospital and then air lifted to a trauma centre, Ontario Provincial Police said.

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Two other females, ages 15 and 17, were transported to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

Essex County OPP say members of the Lakeshore Ontario Provincial Police Detachment, Essex-Windsor Emergency Medical Services and Lakeshore Fire Rescue responded to the incident at about 2 p.m

Police say first responders arrived on scene and, with

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