A collision involving a minimum of 9 automobiles in Oshawa Saturday has left one individual deceased and eight in hospital, police say.
Talking on the intersection of Ritson Highway S. and Bloor Avenue, the place the multi-vehicle accident occurred Saturday afternoon, Insp. Craig McCabe stated police have been referred to as to the scene at about 12:15 p.m. and arrived to search out two automobiles on fireplace, a number of folks injured and one individual deceased.
Eight folks have been taken to hospital with non-life-threatening accidents, he stated. McCabe didn’t present particulars on the deceased individual’s identification or how they have been killed.
Police stated two automobiles caught on fireplace within the multi-vehicle collision in Oshawa Saturday afternoon. One native, who labored on the chip truck seen right here to the correct of the intersection, stated he was grateful the truck’s propane tanks did not catch fireplace. (Submitted by Tyler Thompson)
As to what occurred, McCabe stated solely that police imagine the collision occurred between southbound automobiles approaching Bloor Avenue from Ritson Highway S.
“Collision investigation items at the moment on scene, making an attempt to find out the sequence of occasions that led as much as this collision,” he stated.
Though McCabe didn’t verify what number of automobiles have been concerned within the collision, police stated in a social media publish earlier within the afternoon that there have been a minimum of 9 automobiles.
The intersection has been closed to site visitors since police arrived and would possible stay so for one more 4 or 5 hours, McCabe stated round 4:30 p.m. Police are asking drivers to keep away from the world and discover alternate routes.
Bystanders, chip truck hit by particles
Some bystanders in a close-by car parking zone have been hit by particles from the crash, McCabe stated. There have been additionally folks at a chip truck parked closeby on the time of the collision, he stated, and a few have been injured and brought to hospital. He didn’t say how they grew to become injured by the crash.
Tyler Thompson, who lives close to the intersection, says he was preparing for a shift at a close-by chip truck when he heard a loud crash exterior. Police later stated some folks within the chip truck on the time of the collision have been taken to the hospital with accidents. (Grant Linton/CBC)
Tyler Thompson, who lives near the intersection, stated he was preparing for a shift on the chip truck when he heard a loud “crash and scraping” exterior his home.
“I got here downstairs and my mother was on the again door. She informed me that I wanted to recover from the chip truck as a result of there was flames,” he stated.
Thompson stated he headed over instantly and when he turned the nook he noticed two ladies get out of a black automobile close to the chip truck, bleeding. He referred to as the police and tried to calm them down, he stated, when he heard automobile tires popping from the warmth of the flames from the wreck.
“So I began screaming, attempting to get everyone away from the [chip] truck, as a result of there’s huge propane tanks behind that truck,” Thompson stated. “The black automobile that got here via the car parking zone was in all probability inside six ft of hitting these propane tanks.”
If that may have occurred, no one that was in these automobiles would have walked away,” he stated.
Police stated some individuals who have been on this chip truck subsequent to the intersection have been taken to hospital with non-life-threatening accidents from the collision. Worker Tyler Thompson stated one automobile got here inside six ft of crashing into the propane tank behind the truck. (Submitted by Tyler Thompson)
Fireplace crews arrived shortly after the collision to extinguish all flames on the scene.
Thompson, and a number of other different folks CBC spoke to within the space, stated the intersection has numerous blind spots and is infamous within the neighbourhood for dashing automobiles and collisions.
