Ontario Provincial Police say officers are responding to collisions on Freeway 416 and Freeway 417 after a significant in a single day snowfall. (OPP – picture credit score)
Police are responding to dozens of collisions on Ottawa roads after a winter storm dropped about 15 centimetres of snow on a lot of the Nationwide Capital Area.
“I have been doing this job 18 years, and I’ve by no means seen something like this,” Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Const. Michael Fathi mentioned.
OPP officers responded to 27 collisions within the metropolis in a single day, with quite a few automobiles left in ditches alongside Freeway 417, Freeway 416 and Freeway 7.
Regardless of the big variety of incidents, Fathi mentioned most concerned drivers “going into the ditch” and no accidents had been reported.
These collisions occurred between Monday at 6 p.m. and Tuesday at 6 a.m., and Fathi mentioned the OPP does not but have up to date numbers for Tuesday morning.
“The plows had been out and dealing as onerous as they might to clear the highways, however clearly with the buildup that we received, snow was falling sooner at some factors than the plows may clear it,” Fathi mentioned.
Individuals make their means by means of the falling snow in downtown Ottawa, Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
Individuals make their means by means of the falling snow in downtown Ottawa in early December. ( Ontario Chronicle)
Ottawa woke Tuesday morning to about 15 centimetres of snow, after a storm that began Monday afternoon and lasted into the early hours Tuesday.
Surroundings Canada lifted snowfall warnings round 5 a.m.
By that point, the climate company reported that as much as 17 centimetres of snow had collected on the Ottawa airport.
Though the climate company lifted all snowfall warnings in japanese Ontario, a danger of freezing drizzle remained in place Tuesday morning.
One other eight collisions had been reported to Ottawa police, of which six had been reported after 6 a.m. Tuesday, a spokesperson for the Ottawa Police Service (OPS) mentioned in an electronic mail.
Metropolis workers are reporting a median of about 15 to 16 centimetres of snow all through Ottawa’s downtown, in keeping with town’s supervisor of highway operations Bryden Denyes.
Metropolis snow clearing crews have been working for the reason that early morning and are prioritizing principal and arterial roadways, he mentioned.
“We totally perceive that it’s a very busy day for households, however we at all times ask if there’s any solution to make preparations to maneuver automobiles off roadways, that can assist us get cleaned up sooner,” Denyes instructed CBC’s Ottawa Morning.
4 accidents in Gatineau
Gatineau noticed 4 accidents on slippery roads in a single day, in keeping with Gatineau police, together with an incident of a ten-wheel truck hitting a lamppost on the intersection of Boulevard du Mont-Bleu and Boulevard de la Cité-des-Jeunes.
The 15 to 18 centimetres of snow that collected in Gatineau can be cleared from streets inside about 16 hours and from sidewalks and multipurpose pathways inside about 20 hours of when the snowfall ended, in keeping with a information launch from The Metropolis of Gatineau.
