— Ontario Provincial Police say they have now identified two of three people killed in a fiery pileup on a highway north of Toronto. Police say the coroner has identified a mini-van driver who was killed in the 14-vehicle crash on Halloween night as 41-year-old Michael John Landry of Oshawa, Ont. OPP commissioner Vince Hawkes, who just days before had sounded the alarm about fatal collisions caused by distracted truck drivers, said the collision could have killed many more people. Hawkes put the trucking industry “on notice” late last month, citing three recent collisions involving large commercial vehicles that killed a total of six people. The Ontario Trucking Association has said the industry is committed to road safety, noting that there has been a 66 per cent decrease in the fatality rate from large truck collisions between 1995 and 2014 despite a 75 per cent rise in large truck vehicle registrations.

Source: National Post November 08, 2017 17:03 UTC