Deadly Crash on Highway 401 in Pickering

0:00Highway 401 Eastbound and Pickering is a mess right now, after two back-to-back crashes, including one that's left at 38-year-old, driver dead. It all kicked off around 2.40 a.m., Sunday on the collector lanes near Westney Road, when a pickup truck slammed into a passenger vehicle. Then, just after 4.25 a.m., another wreck happened in the exact same spot, this time a passenger car hitting a police cruiser. Two officers got rushed to the hospital with serious injuries, but they're not life-threatening. Drivers are feeling the squeeze hard, with all Eastbound collector and express lanes shed down from White's road, backing up traffic big time. Ontario Provincial Police Reconstructionists and collision experts are digging into what went wrong and they're asking anyone with dashcam footage or tips to hit them up, expect that closure to drag on, so plan those alternate routes if you're heading that way. This has been Canada News Today, powered by AI.