Man, 34, killed, Hwy 401 closed down near Trenton, ON

Updated: Wed Nov. 25 2009 16:34:47
via ctvottawa.ca

A 34-year-old man was pronounced dead at the scene after a rollover on Highway 401 near Trenton.
Police say the Toronto man lost control of his car when he was trying to pass another vehicle on Tuesday night.
The car rolled and the man was thrown from the vehicle. He wasn't wearing a seatbelt.

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A male motorist from Toronto was killed Tuesday evening after losing control of his car on Highway 401 in the eastbound lanes near Trenton. All eastbound lanes of the highway were closed for five hours after police reconstruction teams assessed the crash scene. The Honda Civic rolled several times, said police, ejecting the driver. The car came to rest near the Wooler Road exit just after 7 p.m. The Quinte West Fire Department and OPP attended. The man’s name has not yet been released.
Photo: Submitted

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Source: Belleville Intelligencer

ONTARIO - A Toronto area man died after he lost control of his Honda Civic on the eastbound lanes of Highway 401 Tuesday evening near the Wooler Road exit.

Quinte West fire chief John Whelan was the first on the scene. Whelan found the car upside down on the highway embankment and Whelan said the man had been ejected. He found the victim several meters from the wreckage.

"I put a tarp on the body," he said.

Whelan received the 911 call around 7:15 p.m. Tuesday.

Ambulance and OPP were on the scene just minutes later.

"Because it was so dark and rainy, firefighters had a hard time locating the crash," said Whelan. Once at the scene, firefighters used a thermal imaging camera to scan the area around crash.

"At that point we didn't know the man was the only occupant of the car," said Whelan.

The OPP closed the eastbound lanes for nearly five hours, but as of 11 a.m., OPP had not released the name of the deceased driver.