WB Gardiner reopens near Park Lawn after multi-vehicle crash
Posted June 18, 2015 5:42 am.
Last Updated June 18, 2015 10:43 am.
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The westbound Gardiner Expressway has reopened near Park Lawn Road following a multi-vehicle crash early Thursday morning involving a crew putting diamond stickers on the temporary high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes.
The ramp from Park Lawn to the westbound Gardiner remains closed.
It appears an Acura struck a crash truck, which was protecting workers doing the road work, just before 4 a.m. A second vehicle, a Ford minivan, then somehow became involved in the crash and rolled over.
“The Acura strikes the back of the safety truck, veers off [and] strikes a westbound van. The van then goes out of control, through a guardrail and rolling over,” Const. Clint Stibbe said.
The crew’s truck that was involved in this crash was from a private contractor who has been putting down the diamond stickers for the HOV lanes for the Pan Am Games.
While the crew was putting down the diamond markings, another vehicle, called the crash truck, goes behind them with the signal indicators to warn drivers to move over into the other lanes.
Stibbe said the crash could have been much worse if the crash truck had not been in place.
Several of the patients had to be extracted from their vehicles by firefighters and paramedics.
Toronto police said six people — three people the Acura and three people in the minivan — were taken to hospital but the injuries are not considered life-threatening. None of the work crew was injured.
The driver of the Acura has been taken to custody on alcohol-related charges.
With files from Carl Hanstke
