Motorcycle fatal accidents reach 7-years maximum – OPP warns drivers
Ontario Provincial Police raised the concern about rapidly growing number of deaths in motorcycle crashes. They are sending warnings for Ontario drivers, highlighting that the number of fatalities is almost hitting the highest number in recent 7 years. As per Sgt. Kerry Schmidt, OPP have investigated 26 accidents involving motorcycles this year (25 motorcyclists and one passenger have gotten fatal injuries). As per the last year's statistics, the number of incidents was 29 but there are still good couple of several months with good conditions for bikers to ride this year. We're concerned these numbers may continue to climb and ...
Serious car accident – Toronto Hwy 401 express EB closed
August 15, Toronto A multi-vehicle car accident happened around 2am Friday morning. A truck has struck a Ministry of Transportation vehicle and two more cars parked on the shoulder. …
Man came to police after fatal bicycle accident
August 14, Milton The man (25 y.o.) came with confession after hitting a cyclist in Toronto. The 32-year-old victim of the incident got fatal injuries and died. As per the investigation report, a motor vehicle hit the male who was cycling in Milton. The victim's name has not been released as of yet. The driver suspected to be at fault, identified as Joel Van Beek, came to police on Wednesday, August 13. Now he is facing charges of dangerous operation of a vehicle causing death.
Toronto man charged with street racing causing death in a fatal car accident
August 8, Toronto The car crash happened in Mississauga at about 6:20 in the evening. The victim, later identified as Mohammad Haniff 29 (y.o.) was driving at a "high rate of speed". At some point he's lost control and smashed his Honda Accord into another vehicle, stated in the police report. One of witnesses from the scene said that the driver of the second vehicle, identified as a brown Toyota Camry, rapidly drifted from the scene leaving the victim helpless. Mohammad Haniff who was the only person in the car, pronounced dead at the scene. No personal injuries have been ...
Fatal motor vehicle accident on railroad intersection near Trenton
August 6, 2014 A fatal car accident happened this morning around 10 am: a collision involving a CN freight train and a motor vehicle resulted in one victim. As per OPP, one male was killed when the car crashed into the front of the locomotive. Emergency response team had to extract the victim from the car. There is no information about any other people in the vehicle or any other injuries reported. The cargo train with two locomotives pulling 161 cars, was on the Montreal-Toronto route during the accident. As per CN, there were nobody injured on the train. The ...
Impaired driving car crash at Burlington Skyway
July 31, 2014 Burlington, Ontario The driver of a large truck crashed into the Burlington Skyway causing significant damage, right before a major long weekend. …
Woman killed in Toronto car accident
July 28, 2014 North York The collision happened around 12:15 p.m. on Yonge Street area, between Doris and Willowdale. Two motor vehicles crashed resulting in four people getting personal injuries from minor to lethal. Five ambulances came to the scene to pickup everybody who needed hospitalization. The lethally injured woman was rushed to the hospital, but unfortunately didn't make it and was pronounced dead. Two other victims of the auto collision were taken to a trauma centre with serious injuries. The fourth person whose injuries were considered as non-life-threatening, was taken to a local hospital for treatment. No information about ...
Driver killed in a car accident in Toronto
July 23, 2014 Toronto The incident happened around 2:00 am on the westbound Highway 401, exit at Keele Street. The 28 y.o. driver was traveling in his BMW 3 series sedan. Suddenly, he left the roadway resulting his car bumping into construction machinery standing on grass aside. There is no information about reasons caused him to go off the road. The driver (his name is being withheld by police) from Toronto, had to be extracted from his vehicle by the emergency response team. After that he was urged to hospital where he died because of fatal injuries. Any witnesses of ...
Thornhill car accident aftermath – a man charged over 8 injured
Some details of the horrible multiple car crash happened earlier today, became available. There were eight cars involved, some of them were almost ripped into two pieces, others got serious or minor damage. Eight people (including drivers and passengers) were transported for medical treatment, having injuries of different severity (from critical to serious). One person was transported to Sunnybrook Hospital in critical condition. As witnessed by various people, the suspect driver was flying down Bathurst Street at an enormously high for streets speed. Reaching Clark, he bumped into the row of cars standing at the intersection while red light was ...
Critical injuries after a serious motor vehicle accident in GTA
The incident resulted in numerous injuries happened around 10 am, on Thursday, July 10 in Thornhill, GTA – near the Promenade Mall. …
A drunk driver hits a police car MVA
Don’t drink and drive: A motor vehicle accident involved a police car A driver from Tennessee had a really bad day in man visiting Pennsylvania. He started from a couple of beers and finished with a doubleshot, and went for a ride. Not a very good idea, isn’t it? The result can be seen on the police video. …
Toronto public transit – TTC vehicles involved in 18,000 collisions last 5 years
Andy Byford, Toronto Transit Commission CEO, states that majority of the thousands of accidents TTC vehicles involved in every year are completely outside the TTC’s control. …