TORONTO — An 18-year-old from Oshawa has been charged with harmful driving after a collision with an Ontario Provincial Police car that Premier Doug Ford was travelling in.
TORONTO — An 18-year-old from Oshawa has been charged with harmful driving after a collision with an Ontario Provincial Police car that Premier Doug Ford was travelling in.
Ford stated he was all proper however the car he was in acquired “hammered” when it was hit by one other automobile Wednesday on Freeway 401.
The collision occurred as Ford was on his approach again from an announcement at Darlington Nuclear Producing Station. The car acquired “sideswiped,” Ford stated.
“We had been simply driving straight, subsequent factor you understand, you bought hammered, simply hammered,” he stated after taking some questions on the legislature a couple of digital assembly he had with all the premiers on Canada-U.S. relations.
“I am OK. This head’s like limestone. It is laborious as a rock.”
OPP say two folks within the different car had been taken to hospital with minor accidents. They added that the motive force has a court docket look scheduled in Oshawa on Feb. 20.
Earlier, Ford instructed the motive force of the opposite car could have been significantly damage, whereas a spokesperson for the premier stated that driver is believed to have non-life-threatening accidents.
The employees and OPP officers who had been additionally within the premier’s car are OK as effectively, spokesperson Grace Lee stated.
Ford was at Darlington to speak a couple of imaginative and prescient to provide each Canada and america with power, within the face of American tariff threats.
This report by The Canadian Press was first printed Jan. 8, 2025.
Allison Jones and Liam Casey, The Canadian Press
