highway safety division Detachment
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WITNESSES SOUGHT FOR COLLISION ON QEW IN HAMILTON
Highway Safety Division 6/19/2026 4:25pm
The Burlington detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police - Highway Safety Division (OPP-HSD) is seeking witnesses in relation to a collision that occurred on June 19, 2026, at 11:10 am in the Fort Erie bound lanes of the QEW highway before the Nikola Tesla Blvd / Woodward Ave exit in the City of Hamilton. Three vehicles were involved in the collision resulting in five patient...
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OPP RESPONDING TO FATAL COLLISION ON HIGHWAY 401 IN WHITBY
Highway Safety Division 6/14/2026 10:30am
A 24-year-old male has been pronounced deceased following a single-vehicle collision involving a passenger vehicle. On Sunday, June 14, 2026, shortly after 4:00 am, members of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Highway Safety Division - Toronto Detachment attended the scene of a collision on Highway 401 and Highway 412 in Whitby. The passenger was transported to a local hospi...
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OPP RESPONDING TO FATAL COLLISION ON HIGHWAY 6
Highway Safety Division 6/4/2026 10:25pm
A 64-year-old male has been pronounced deceased following a collision involving an SUV and a motorcycle. On Thursday, June 4, 2026, shortly after 6:00 pm, members of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Highway Safety Division - Burlington Detachment attended the scene of a collision on Highway 6 and Book Road East in Hamilton. The driver of the motorcycle was transported to...
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MISSISSAUGA OPP INVESTIGATING FATAL COLLISION ON HIGHWAY 401
Highway Safety Division 5/31/2026 5:35am
The Mississauga Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) is investigating a collision on Highway 401 in Mississauga. On Saturday, May 30, 2026, at approximately 8:15 pm, members of the Mississauga Detachment were dispatched to a collision involving three motor vehicles on the eastbound collector lanes of Highway 401 near Mississauga Road. The 78-year-old female pa...
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MISSISSAUGA OPP INVESTIGATING COLLISION ON HIGHWAY 410
Highway Safety Division 5/30/2026 9:15am
The Mississauga Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police is investigating a collision on Highway 410 in Mississauga. On Saturday, May 30, 2026, at approximately 12.05 am, members of the Mississauga Detachment were dispatched to a collision involving two motor vehicles and a pedestrian on the southbound lanes of Highway 410 near Derry Road. A 48-year-old male from Brampton...
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-UPDATE #1- SIU INVOKES MANDATE IN PUSLINCH TOWNSHIP - Five Youths Charged in Parallel Police Investigation
Highway Safety Division 5/23/2026 4:10pm
-UPDATE #1- SIU INVOKES MANDATE IN PUSLINCH TOWNSHIP Five Youths Charged in Parallel Police Investigation (PUSLINCH TWP, ON) - Members of the Mississauga Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) have laid charges in connection with an incident in which the province's Special Investigations Unit (SIU) invoked its mandate in Puslinch. On Friday, May 22, 2026, at approximately...
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SIU INVOKES MANDATE IN PUSLINCH TOWNSHIP
Highway Safety Division 5/23/2026 1:40pm
The province's Special Investigations Unit (SIU) has invoked its mandate following an incident in Puslinch Township. On Friday, May 22, 2026, at approximately 8:50 pm, members of the Mississauga Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to reports of a stolen vehicle at a highway service centre on Highway 401 westbound in Puslinch. The vehicle fled the s...
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OPP INVESTIGATING FATAL COLLISION ON HIGHWAY 7/12
Highway Safety Division 5/22/2026 1:45pm
One individual has been pronounced deceased following a collision on Highway 7/12 in Scugog Township. On Friday, May 22, 2026, at approximately 6:50 am, members of the Highway Safety Division - Toronto Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to a collision involving a passenger vehicle and dump truck on Highway 7/12 just north of Blue Mountain Road. The colli...
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OPP INVESTIGATING SHOOTING ON HIGHWAY 401 IN MISSISSAUGA
Highway Safety Division 5/22/2026 9:35am
Members of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Highway Safety Division - Mississauga Detachment are investigating a shooting incident on Highway 401. On Friday, May 22, 2026, at approximately 12:20 am, OPP received reports of possible gunfire on Highway 401 near Mavis Road in Mississauga, in the eastbound collector lanes. One person sustained minor injuries after being str...
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OPP RESPONDS TO FATAL COLLISION ON HIGHWAY 401
Highway Safety Division 5/16/2026 7:50am
One individual has been pronounced deceased following a fatal multi-vehicle collision on Highway 401 in Toronto. On Friday, May 15, 2026, shortly after 11:45 pm, members of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Highway Safety Division - Toronto Detachment attended the scene of a collision on Highway 401 eastbound, east of Eglinton Avenue West in Toronto. There was an initial coll...
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PEDESTRIAN KILLED IN A COLLISION ON THE QUEEN ELIZABETH WAY
Highway Safety Division 5/10/2026 10:50am
Officers from the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), Highway Safety Division (HSD) - Burlington Detachment, are investigating a collision that has resulted in one fatality. On Sunday, May 10, 2026, just after 12:00 am, a pedestrian was walking on the Queen Elizabeth Way (QEW) Fort Erie bound, approaching Fruitland Road, Stoney Creek (Hamilton) when he was struck by at least one v...
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MOTORCYCLE COLLISION LEADS TO FATALITY ON HIGHWAY 407 IN OAKVILLE
Highway Safety Division 5/1/2026 7:55am
One individual is deceased following a collision on Highway 407 in Oakville. On Thursday, April 30, 2026, at approximately 11.55 pm, officers from the Highway 407 detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) were dispatched to a single-vehicle collision involving a motorcycle on the eastbound lanes of Highway 407 near Trafalgar Road in Oakville. A 25-year-old male from N...
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Arrest Made After Driver Flees RIDE Spot Check
Highway Safety Division 4/9/2026 8:50am
The Toronto Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Highway Safety Division has arrested an individual who fled from police during a Reduce Impaired Driving Everywhere (RIDE) program. On Saturday March 21, 2026, at around 11:50 pm, OPP officers were conducting a RIDE program on the Highway 427 northbound on-ramp at The Queensway in Etobicoke. An Automatic License Plat...
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CARJACKING ON HIGHWAY 427 IN TORONTO
Highway Safety Division 12/11/2025 3:51pm
Officers from the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Highway Safety Division (HSD) Toronto and Mississauga detachments are seeking public assistance in relation to a carjacking and collision that are believed to be related. On Wednesday December 10, 2025, just after 6:00 pm a collision between two vehicles occurred on the northbound lanes of Highway 427 approaching Highway 401 in...
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SIU INVOKES MANDATE IN TORONTO
Highway Safety Division 11/28/2025 4:50pm
The province's Special Investigations Unit (SIU) has invoked its mandate following a collision involving a police vehicle on Highway 400 in North York. On Friday, November 28, 2025, at approximately 7:00 am, an Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Highway Safety Division officer from the Toronto Detachment was involved in a collision with a passenger vehicle in the northbound lane...
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OPP INVESTIGATING FATAL COLLISION IN NORTH YORK
Highway Safety Division 11/10/2025 1:10am
Members of the Highway Safety Division of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) are investigating a fatal collision involving a transport truck and a pedestrian in North York. On Sunday, November 9, 2025, at approximately 6:45 pm, Toronto OPP officers were notified of a collision on Highway 401 westbound express at Keele Street overpass. A 30-year-old male was pronounced decea...
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SUSPENDED DRIVER ARRESTED AND CHARGED FOR FIREARMS OFFENCES
Highway Safety Division 10/28/2025 8:25am
A driver was arrested and charged criminally with driving and firearms offences after he was caught driving while serving a 1-year driver's licence suspension because of a Criminal Code impaired driving conviction. On Saturday, October 25, 2025, at 10:31 am, an Officer from the Burlington Detachment was conducting speed enforcement on Highway 6 near Leeming Rd in Hamilton. Auto...
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SIX VEHICLE COLLISION CAUSED BY VEHICLE CROSSING INTO ONCOMING LANES RESULTS IN FATALITY
Highway Safety Division 10/23/2025 10:50am
Officers from the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), Highway Safety Division (HSD) - Niagara Detachment are investigating a six-vehicle collision caused by a vehicle crossing over into the oncoming lanes that resulted in a fatality to the driver of the vehicle that crossed over. At approximately 6:45 am on Wednesday, October 22, 2025, a vehicle travelling southbound on highway 406 n...
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SUDDEN DEATH INVESTIGATION ON HIGHWAY 403
Highway Safety Division 10/20/2025 1:50pm
Officers from the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), Highway Safety Division (HSD) - Burlington Detachment are investigating after a pedestrian was struck and killed on highway 403 in Hamilton on Saturday. Just before 4 pm on Saturday, October 18, 2025, a vehicle travelling westbound on highway 403 past Aberdeen Ave in the City of Hamilton struck and critically injured a pedestri...
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SUDDEN DEATH INVESTIGATION ON HIGHWAY 403
Highway Safety Division 10/20/2025 1:49pm
Officers from the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), Highway Safety Division (HSD) - Burlington Detachment are investigating after a pedestrian was struck and killed on highway 403 in Hamilton on Saturday. Just before 4 pm on Saturday, October 18, 2025, a vehicle travelling westbound on highway 403 past Aberdeen Ave in the City of Hamilton struck and critically injured a pedestri...
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TWO VEHICLE COLLISION INVOLVING MOTORCYCLE RESULTS IN FATALITY AT INTERSECTION OF HIGHWAY 6 AND UPPER JAMES ST
Highway Safety Division 10/1/2025 11:00am
TWO VEHICLE COLLISION INVOLVING MOTORCYCLE RESULTS IN FATALITY AT INTERSECTION OF HIGHWAY 6 AND UPPER JAMES ST (BURLINGTON, ON) - Officers from the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), Highway Safety Division (HSD) - Burlington Detachment are investigating a two-vehicle collision between a motorcycle and a transport truck that resulted in a fatality to the driver of the motorcycle. At a...
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FATAL COLLISION UNDER INVESTIGATION ON HIGHWAY 401 IN CLARINGTON
Highway Safety Division 9/29/2025 1:40pm
Officers from the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), Highway Safety Division (HSD) - Whitby Detachment, are investigating a three-vehicle collision that resulted in one fatality. On Monday, September 29, 2025, at 6:01 am, the Whitby OPP were called to a collision on Highway 401 eastbound at Holt Rd, in the Municipality of Clarington. Highway 401 eastbound at Bowmanville Ave....
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BURLINGTON OPP INVESTIGATING ATTEMPTED CAR JACKING ON HIGHWAY 403 IN HAMILTON
Highway Safety Division 9/26/2025 8:15am
Members from the Burlington Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) are investigating an attempted car jacking that occurred in the westbound lanes of highway 403 near Alberton Rd in the City of Hamilton at approximately 12:30 am on Monday, September 15, 2025. The victim was travelling in a dark stretch of the 403 westbound in Hamilton when they observed a vehicle...
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THREE PEOPLE FACING WEAPONS CHARGES AFTER POLICE INVESTIGATION
Highway Safety Division 9/24/2025 3:25pm
Three individuals are facing firearms-related charges following a traffic stop in Oshawa. On Friday, September 19, 2025, at approximately 6:00 pm, officers from the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Highway Safety Division (HSD) Highway 407 and Toronto Detachments conducted a traffic stop on Highway 407 near Harmony Road in Oshawa, Ontario. As a result of the traffic stop, Inder...
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TWO VEHICLE COLLISION INVOLVING MOTORCYCLE RESULTS IN FATALITY AT INTERSECTION OF HIGHWAY 58 AND THOROLD STONE ROAD
Highway Safety Division 9/22/2025 9:25am
TWO VEHICLE COLLISION INVOLVING MOTORCYCLE RESULTS IN FATALITY AT INTERSECTION OF HIGHWAY 58 AND THOROLD STONE ROAD (NIAGARA, ON) - Officers from the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), Highway Safety Division (HSD) - Niagara Detachment are investigating a two-vehicle collision between a motorcycle and a pickup truck that resulted in a fatality to the driver of the motorcycle. At appro...
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- UPDATE #1 - NIAGARA OPP INVESTIGATING ROCKS THROWN AT MOVING VEHICLES - ONE INDIVIDUAL CHARGED
Highway Safety Division 9/8/2025 3:15pm
- UPDATE #1 - NIAGARA OPP INVESTIGATING ROCKS THROWN AT MOVING VEHICLES - ONE INDIVIDUAL CHARGED - (NIAGARA, ON) - One individual has been charged in connection with incidents in which police believe rocks were thrown at moving vehicles in the Niagara Region. Between June and August 2025, the Niagara Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) received multiple reports o...
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SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS UNIT INVOKES MANDATE IN WELLAND - One Person Injured
Highway Safety Division 9/6/2025 10:46am
SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS UNIT INVOKES MANDATE IN WELLAND One Person Injured (WELLAND, ON) - The province's Special Investigations Unit (SIU) has invoked its mandate following a collision involving a police vehicle on Highway 58A in Welland. On Friday, September 5, 2025, at approximately 9:40 pm, an officer in a police vehicle from the Niagara Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OP...
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POLICE RESPOND TO MEDICAL EMERGENCY RESULTING IN THREE VEHICLE COLLISION ON QEW
Highway Safety Division 9/2/2025 11:50am
POLICE RESPOND TO MEDICAL EMERGENCY RESULTING IN THREE VEHICLE COLLISION ON QEW (BURLINGTON, ON) - Officers from the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), Highway Safety Division (HSD) - Burlington Detachment are investigating a medical emergency which resulted in a three-vehicle collision and the death of one of the involved drivers. At 6:45 pm on Sunday, August 31, 2025, reports were re...
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FATAL SINGLE VEHICLE COLLISION ON HIGHWAY 410
Highway Safety Division 8/31/2025 9:35am
One person is deceased following a single vehicle collision on Highway 410 northbound near Courtneypark Drive East in the City of Mississauga. At approximately 9:30 pm on Saturday, August 30, 2025, members of the Mississauga Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to a report of a passenger vehicle that had collided into a center median. As a result of...
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FIREARM LOCATED WHEN A BLOCKER TRUCK PROTECTING A COLLISION SCENE WAS HIT
Highway Safety Division 8/14/2025 2:30pm
Officers Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), Highway Safety Division (HSD) - Whitby Detachment are investigating a two-vehicle collision with a road maintenance vehicle and a passenger vehicle. On Thursday, August 14, 2025, at 12:42 am, Whitby OPP were on scene of a police investigation on Highway 401 Eastbound near Bennett Rd. in the Municipality of Clarington. At this time th...
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ROAD RAGE INCIDENT RESULTS IN TWO INDIVIDUALS BEING STABBED
Highway Safety Division 8/12/2025 3:15pm
Officers from the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), Highway Safety Division (HSD) - Toronto Detachment are investigating a road rage incident involving two motor vehicles on Highway 401 Eastbound Collectors near Brimley Rd. in the City of Toronto that resulted in two parties being stabbed. On Monday, August 11, 2025, at approximately 4:37 pm, members of the Toronto Detachment...
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OPP INVESTIGATING FATAL COLLISION IN MISSISSAUGA
Highway Safety Division 8/10/2025 12:45pm
Members of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Highway Safety Division are investigating a fatal single vehicle rollover on Highway 401 at Highway 410. On Sunday, August 10, 2025, at approximately 3:30 am, officers attended the scene of a collision on the Highway 401 eastbound ramp to northbound Highway 410. The driver of the vehicle, a 23-year-old female from Brampton, was...
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-UPDATE #1- OPP INVESTIGATING A FATAL COLLISION ON HIGHWAY 48 - Charges Laid
Highway Safety Division 8/5/2025 5:35pm
One person has been charged in connection with a fatal head-on collision on Highway 48 in Ballantrae, Whitchurch-Stoufville. On Sunday, August 3, 2025, at approximately 9:20 pm, officers from the Aurora Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to a two-vehicle collision on Highway 48 between St. John Sideroad and Ballantrae Commons. A 35-year-old...
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POLICE RESPOND TO MULTIPLE SERIOUS COLLISIONS DURING THE CIVIC LONG WEEKEND ACROSS THE GTHA
Highway Safety Division 8/5/2025 4:35pm
Officers from the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Highway Safety Division (HSD) responded to multiple serious collisions across the Greater Toronto Hamilton Area (GTHA) throughout the Civic long weekend. On Saturday, August 2, 2025, at approximately 1:30 am, a tractor trailer travelling westbound on the Queen Elizabeth Way approaching Christie Street in Grimsby was observed drif...
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NIAGARA OPP INVESTIGATING ROCKS THROWN AT MOVING VEHICLES
Highway Safety Division 7/31/2025 1:30pm
The Niagara detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) is investigating incidents of rocks being intentionally thrown at moving vehicles travelling on the highway. Incidents have been reported in the following areas: -Highway 406 between Westchester Ave and Fourth Ave, St Catharines. -QEW near Mountain Rd, Niagara Falls. -Highway 58 near Pine St, Thorold....
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LIMOUSINE DRIVER WITH 10 PASSENGERS CHARGED WITH IMPAIRED AND DANGEROUS DRIVING
Highway Safety Division 7/29/2025 11:25am
A limousine driver was arrested and charged with Impaired Operation of a Motor Vehicle after the passengers forced the driver to pull the vehicle to the shoulder of the QEW out of concern for their safety. On Friday, July 11, 2025, at 10:56 pm, members from the Burlington OPP responded to the QEW Toronto bound near Fifty Rd in the City of Hamilton. One of 10 passengers from a...
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INDIVIDUAL ARRESTED AFTER DRUG SEIZURE IN MISSISSAUGA
Highway Safety Division 7/25/2025 4:00pm
The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) have arrested and charged an individual following a drug-related investigation in Mississauga. On Thursday, July 24, 2025, officers of the Mississauga OPP conducted a traffic stop on the Queen Elizabeth Way (QEW) at Erin Mills Parkway in Mississauga. As a result of the investigation, officers seized approximately four kilograms of suspect...
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OPP RESPONDING TO FATAL COLLISION ON HIGHWAY 401
Highway Safety Division 7/19/2025 9:10am
Members of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Highway Safety Division - Toronto Detachment are investigating a fatal multi-vehicle collision that occurred early this morning on Highway 401 in Toronto. On Saturday, July 19, 2025, shortly after 5:00 am, officers attended the scene of a collision on Highway 401. There was an initial collision involving a tractor trailer and an S...
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OPP SEEKING PUBLIC’S ASSISTANCE RELATING TO AN ASSAULT ON HIGHWAY 407 ETR
Highway Safety Division 7/12/2025 7:55pm
OPP SEEKING PUBLIC'S ASSISTANCE RELATING TO AN ASSAULT ON HIGHWAY 407 ETR (VAUGHAN, ON) - The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Highway 407 Detachment is seeking witnesses or dashcam footage related to an assault that occurred on Highway 407 ETR eastbound near Pine Valley Drive in the City of Vaughan at approximately 1:50 pm, on Saturday, July 12, 2025. Police received a report of a mal...
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PASSENGER VEHICLE REAR-ENDS A COMMERCIAL MOTOR VEHICLE, RESULTING IN ONE FATALITY
Highway Safety Division 7/8/2025 3:00pm
Officers from the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), Highway Safety Division (HSD) - Highway 407 Detachment are investigating motor vehicle collision that resulted in one fatality. On Wednesday July 7, 2025, at 4:53 am, the Highway 407 OPP responded to a collision on Highway 407 Eastbound, East of Mississauga Rd, in the City of Brampton. A black Honda Civic rear-ended a commercial...
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TWO VEHICLE COLLISION INVOLVING MOTORCYCLE RESULTS IN FATALITY ON HIGHWAY 403 NEAR LINCOLN ALEXANDER PARKWAY
Highway Safety Division 7/8/2025 8:00am
TWO VEHICLE COLLISION INVOLVING MOTORCYCLE RESULTS IN FATALITY ON HIGHWAY 403 NEAR LINCOLN ALEXANDER PARKWAY (HAMILTON, ON) - Officers from the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), Highway Safety Division (HSD) - Burlington Detachment are investigating a two-vehicle collision between a motorcycle and a sedan that resulted in a fatality to the driver of the motorcycle. At 2:09 pm on Mond...
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FATAL COLLISION CLOSES HIGHWAY 48 IN SUTTON
Highway Safety Division 6/13/2025 1:15pm
One person is deceased as a result of a motor vehicle collision on Highway 48 in Sutton. On June 13, 2025, just before 9:00 am, the Aurora Detachment Highway Safety Division (HSD) of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to a two-vehicle collision involving a dump truck and a passenger vehicle at Highway 48 and High Street. The lone driver of the car a 31-year-old man,...
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E-SCOOTER COLLISION RESULTS IN A FATALITY
Highway Safety Division 6/11/2025 2:50pm
Officers from the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), Highway Safety Division (HSD) - Whitby Detachment, are investigating a motor vehicle collision that resulted in one fatality. On Wednesday June 4, 2025, at 4:41 pm, the Whitby OPP were called to a collision on Highway 401 westbound onramp from southbound Liverpool Rd, in the City of Pickering. The collision involved a red SUV...
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DRIVER ARRESTED AND CHARGED TWICE IN THREE DAYS
Highway Safety Division 6/9/2025 9:40am
A resident of North Dundas Township was arrested and charged twice in three days for driving offences. On Friday, June 6, 2025, just after 10:00 am, officers with the Russell County Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) stopped a vehicle on Notre Dame Street in Russell Township after the ALPR indicated that the licence plates should not be in use. The driver was arrest...
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MOTORCYCLE COLLISION RESULTS IN ONE FATALITY ON HIGHWAY 401
Highway Safety Division 6/4/2025 2:10pm
Officers from the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), Highway Safety Division (HSD) - Whitby Detachment, are investigating motor vehicle collision that resulted in one fatality. On Wednesday June 4, 2025, at 5:48 am, the Whitby OPP were called to a collision on eastbound Highway 401, east of Harmony Road, in the City of Oshawa. A motorcycle collided with the rear of a tractor trailer...