A collision between a transport truck and Volkswagen sedan on Highway 407 near Winston Churchill Boulevard Tuesday afternoon sent one man to hospital with serious injuries.
Ontario Provincial Police got the call around 1:30 p.m. and upon arrival, closed off both east and westbound traffic on the express toll route for some time.
OPP Sgt. Kerry Schmidt told AM640 that it looked like a chain reaction accident in which the two vehicles side-swiped each other with the transport truck sliding along the median for quite a distance before catching fire.
The truck driver exited his vehicle without any serious injury, meanwhile the driver of the Volkswagen had to be cut out of his car by emergency crews. He was eventually transported by air ambulance to St Michael’s hospital in Toronto.
Collision reconstruction teams on scene had estimated that the eastbound lanes on the 407 would be closed until 9 p.m. Tuesday night.
An update from OPP around 6:30 p.m. said they expect some lanes to reopen earlier than that, at 8 p.m. Schmidt also said the driver who was airlifted to a trauma centre in Toronto has had his injuries downgraded to non-life-threatening.
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One lane from Highway 401 to Mississauga Road had reopened around 7:45 p.m.
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