A building employee is combating for his life after being struck by an SUV on the eastbound portion of Freeway 403 in Burlington.
Ontario Provincial Police say round 4 a.m. a automobile entered the development zone and struck a building increase automobile, injuring the employee who was taken to a hospital in Hamilton.
Whereas the harm to the gray Buick SUV was in depth the driving force walked away with minor accidents.
An extended stretch of the freeway close to Waterdown Street was closed for greater than eight hours as police investigated the crash.
Police say they’re contemplating a number of potentialities as they examine together with a mechanical failure, a medical episode, and whether or not velocity and alcohol could have performed a job within the crash.
The Ontario Ministry of Labour has additionally been known as in to analyze.
“Incidents like these are a tragic reminder of the risks construction workers face daily,” Steven Crombie with the Ontario Street Builders’ Affiliation tells CityNews.
“Ontario and Prince Edward Island are the only two provinces in the country that don’t extend a slow down, move over protection provision – which extend to tow truck drivers and first responders – they don’t extend to road maintenance workers and road construction workers,” mentioned Crombie, who added they’re at the moment working with the Ford authorities to implement security legal guidelines round building zones on our roads and highways.
“When passing construction zones, proceed with caution. These are people’s mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters and this is their workspace,” he mentioned.
