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80-vehicle pileup closes Highway 401 near Oshawa
'It just never ends. We stopped counting at 70 cars,' a driver says
CBC News
Posted: Jan 25, 2013 4:11 PM ET
Last Updated: Jan 25, 2013 8:07 PM ET
A massive pileup involving as many as 80 vehicles has closed down Highway 401 east of Oshawa, Ont., on Friday afternoon and police say it will take many hours to get things back to normal.
It appears the worst part of the pileup is near Newcastle, at the Highway 35/115 exit.
"It just never ends. We stopped counting at 70 cars," said Filippo Fazzino, who was driving on the highway when the pileup happened.
Crumpled, twisted wrecks are strewn along a 1.5 kilometre stretch of Canada's busiest highway. Police are rerouting traffic around the accident scene.
The EMS chief for Durham Region said Friday afternoon that five people were taken to hospital. That was later confirmed by OPP spokesperson Cont. Linda Wolf.
Two of the patients had life-threatening injuries. The other three had injuries which Wolf described as "non-life-threatening."
Weather conditions were far from ideal at around 3 p.m. ET when the accident happened. Snow squalls from lake Ontario hit the highway and undoubtedly played a role in the accidents.
"It's too early to say what was the cause of the collision. We definitely will be looking at the weather conditions. We do have unfavourable driving conditions right across the Greater Toronto Area right now, so it's a wonderful opportunity to remind everybody to turn your headlights on, slow down, be aware of your stopping distances."
Medical responders were amazed, considering number of car, trucks and transports involved that there was "more wreckage than injuries."
Wolf said it will take quite some time to clean up the mess and get traffic moving again.
'It just never ends. We stopped counting at 70 cars,' a driver says
CBC News
Posted: Jan 25, 2013 4:11 PM ET
Last Updated: Jan 25, 2013 8:07 PM ET
A massive pileup involving as many as 80 vehicles has closed down Highway 401 east of Oshawa, Ont., on Friday afternoon and police say it will take many hours to get things back to normal.
It appears the worst part of the pileup is near Newcastle, at the Highway 35/115 exit.
"It just never ends. We stopped counting at 70 cars," said Filippo Fazzino, who was driving on the highway when the pileup happened.
Crumpled, twisted wrecks are strewn along a 1.5 kilometre stretch of Canada's busiest highway. Police are rerouting traffic around the accident scene.
The EMS chief for Durham Region said Friday afternoon that five people were taken to hospital. That was later confirmed by OPP spokesperson Cont. Linda Wolf.
Two of the patients had life-threatening injuries. The other three had injuries which Wolf described as "non-life-threatening."
Weather conditions were far from ideal at around 3 p.m. ET when the accident happened. Snow squalls from lake Ontario hit the highway and undoubtedly played a role in the accidents.
"It's too early to say what was the cause of the collision. We definitely will be looking at the weather conditions. We do have unfavourable driving conditions right across the Greater Toronto Area right now, so it's a wonderful opportunity to remind everybody to turn your headlights on, slow down, be aware of your stopping distances."
Medical responders were amazed, considering number of car, trucks and transports involved that there was "more wreckage than injuries."
Wolf said it will take quite some time to clean up the mess and get traffic moving again.
