Multiple Accidents on the 401
POLICE ARE ADVISING MOTORISTS TO STAY OFF THE ROADS TONIGHT.
- Newswatch Newsroom
2/8/2013
POLICE ARE ADVISING MOTORISTS TO STAY OFF THE ROADS TONIGHT.
SECTIONS OF THE 401 THROUGH KINGSTON, MALLORYTOWN AND PRESCOTT HAVE "ALL" BEEN CLOSED BY THE O-P-P BECAUSE OF NUMEROUS ACCIDENTS AND WHITEOUT CONDITIONS.
HERE'S A SUMMARY OF WHAT WE KNOW SO FAR.
THERE WAS A FATAL CRASH INVOLVING A CAR AND SEVERAL TRANSPORT TRUCKS IN THE EASTBOUND LANES NEAR PRESCOTT THIS MORNING.
A 57-YEAR-OLD OTTAWA MAN WAS KILLED.
PROVINCIAL POLICE ALSO REPORT MULTIPLE CASUALTIES INVOLVING TWO COACH BUSES AND SEVERAL OTHER VEHICLES ... ON THE WESTBOUND 401 NEAR LANSDOWNE.
WE DO KNOW THAT ONE BUS DRIVER SUFFERED SERIOUS INJURIES.
POLICE SAY SOME BUS PASSENGERS WHO RECEIVED MINOR INJURIES WERE TAKEN TO THE BROCKVILLE MEMORIAL CENTRE FOR TREATMENT.
AN 88-KILOMETRE STRETCH OF HIGHWAY FROM KINGSTON, TO EAST OF BROCKVILLE, IS CLOSED.
AND.... ALL FLIGHTS TONIGHT AND TOMORROW AT KINGSTON'S NORMAN ROGERS AIRPORT HAVE BEEN CANCELLED.
HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS THROUGH KINGSTON ARE ALSO REPORTED... AS THE REGION CONTINUES TO BE PUMMELLED BY THE WORST WINTER STORM IN YEARS.