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Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit (SIU) is probing the death of a man who fell from an elevated section of Highway 401 near Yonge Street in Toronto.
The SIU said in a media release that police received multiple calls just before 2 a.m. on Tuesday of a pedestrian walking on the eastbound collector lanes of Highway 401 between Yonge Street and Avenue Road over the Don Valley Golf Course.
Following a brief interaction with an Ontario Provincial Police officer, the SIU said the man ran northbound across four lanes of traffic and fell in between the elevated section of the 401 collector and express lanes, where there is an open separation.
The man landed on the ground below and was pronounced dead at the scene. Police have not released the age or identity of the deceased.
The eastbound collector lanes were closed for several hours for the investigation but reopened at 6 a.m.
A female tow truck driver died two years ago in the same area after she stopped her vehicle and tried to hop over the median on Highway 401, where the separation exists, and fell to her death.
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The incident raised questions about whether there should be better signage to warn motorists of the gap.
An official from Ontario’s Ministry of Transportation said at the time that they had no plans to install further signage.
The SIU has assigned two investigators and two forensic investigators to probe the incident.
The SIU is an arm’s-length agency that investigates incidents involving police in which someone is killed, seriously injured or accused of sexual assault.
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