Scarborough Highway 401 crash sends 3 to hospital, 1 with critical injuries
Around 2 a.m. Sunday, a car carrying 3 men crashed into an MTO truck near Morningside, police say
Three people are in hospital, one with critical injuries, after a passenger vehicle slammed into a Ministry of Transportation truck that was stationed on a stretch of Highway 401 in Scarborough early Sunday morning, police say.
MTO had parked a blocker truck and a pickup truck in two of the three westbound lanes approaching Morningside, Ontario Provincial Police say.
Just before 2 a.m., a black car carrying three men collided with an MTO pickup truck that was parked in the right westbound lane approaching Morningside, Ontario Provincial Police say.
The pickup truck was one of two MTO trucks blocking lanes in the area to protect the scene of a prior collision, police say. The truck was unoccupied, police say, and the driver of the MTO blocker truck parked in the lane beside it was uninjured.
The three men in the passenger vehicle that collided with the truck were taken to hospital, police say. One of them remains in critical condition, according to a police update at 8:30 a.m. Sunday.
Westbound collector lanes were closed on Highway 401 at Meadowvale, but police say they have since reopened.