75 Vehicle Pileup on the 400!

[JustinHoffman]

75 vehicles pile up on Highway 400

 

Mar 05, 2007 03:38 PM

Curtis Rush

Staff Reporter

Whiteout conditions north of the GTA on Highway 400 today contributed to a pileup involving up to 75 vehicles in two locations on the highway, the OPP is reporting.

 

Buses, trucks and cars collided in a chain reaction near the Highway 400-Highway 89 intersection near Newmarket.

 

Several other vehicles collided on Highway 400 southbound at Highway 89, almost directly opposite the northbound collisions.

 

A jack-knifed tractor-trailer in the northbound lanes resulted in many of the collisions, police say.

 

Several people were taken to area hospitals, but it wasn't immediately known how serious the injuries are.

 

That section of the highway is expected to be closed in both directions into the evening.

 

The crashes have closed both the eastbound and westbound ramps on the northbound lanes of Highway 400 at Simcoe Rd. 88 as well.

 

The Gardiner Expressway in Toronto and Highway 400 near Newmarket are not the only roadways closed at this hour.

 

Police have closed more than a dozen highways and roads due to bad weather and collisions.

 

Here is a list as of 3 p.m.:

 

1. Grey County Rd. 9 from County Road 124 to Dundalk.

 

2. County Rd. 124 from from Highway 89 to Singhampton.

 

3. Highway 89 from Shelburne to Dundalk.

 

4. Highway 26 At Sunnidale Corners to George Johnston.

 

5. Highway 10 between Flesherton to Dundalk.

 

6. Highway 12 from Brechin to Gamebridge.

 

7. County Rd. 15 to the 5th Side and Country Rd. 5, Amaranth.

 

8. Highway 89 west of Cookstown.

 

9. County Road 25 at 109 to Grand Valley.

 

10. Highway 7 and 8 East and westbound at Region Rd. 51 to Trussler.

 

11. Highway 7 East and westbound at York Durham Townline.

 

12. Highway 50 at Mayfield Rd.

 

13. Airport Rd. between Stayner and Cashtown.

 

14. Country Rd. 92 from Wasaga Beach to Crossland then to Elmvale.

 

15. Sunnidale Rd. northbound at Country Rd. 90.

 

16. Highway 11 southbound at the 13th and 12th Lines, Oro-Medonte.

 

17. Highway 11 southbound at the 7th and 10th Lines, ORO-Medonte.

Edited March 5, 2007 by JustinHoffman

[just2manylures]

Thanks J-man for the heads up. I will have to make different plans to arrive home tonight! That will be gridlock central.