HALIFAX – R-C-M-P say several motorists stranded overnight Sunday, on a Nova Scotia toll road have been escorted off the highway.
Sergeant Al LeBlanc says 13 vehicles with about 30 travellers were forced to spend Sunday night at the Cobequid Pass toll plaza because of storm conditions that made the road impassable.
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LeBlanc says the vehicles were escorted to Oxford by a snowplow early Monday.
Transportation Department official Kevin Mitchell says conditions were extreme and Highway 104 and the Cobequid Pass remains closed to traffic.
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Mitchell says high winds and drifting snow are making it a challenge to keep roads open.
He says officials have also closed the Canso causeway to all traffic headed to Cape Breton because of drifting snow and poor visibility.
(The Canadian Press)
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