Photo: Nick Brancaccio, The Windsor Star
Source: Windsor Star
ONTARIO - Provincial police have identified the trucker killed Sunday night in a tractor trailer collision on Highway 401.
OPP said Adam Goron, 35, from Dunnville (the Windsor Star initially spelled Adam's last name as Gordon. Staff at Education for the Driving Masses have been informed of its proper spelling), died when he rear ended another truck, causing a load of sheet metal coil to dislodge from his flat bed trailer and crush the truck cab he was riding in.
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The collision happened about 8:10 p.m. in the westbound lanes near Tilbury. The highway was shut down for about 10 hours as police investigated the scene.
Police said it appears that a Quebec driver in a 2007 Volvo, loaded with zinc shot, was merging into a traveling lane and accelerating with his four way flashers on.
The second tractor trailer, a 2005 Kenworth with Goron at the wheel, rear ended the Volvo. The impact catapulted the sheet metal coil into Goron's cab.
The 61-year-old driver of the Volvo was transported to hospital as a precaution.
Police said the investigation continues with an autopsy was scheduled today in Windsor.
Source: Windsor Star
ONTARIO - A truck driver is dead following a collision on Highway 401 near Tilbury Sunday night.
The collision involving two tractor-trailers occurred around 8:10 p.m. in the westbound lanes just 50 metres from the County Road 42 exit, right in front of the Pilot gas station and truck stop.
The driver of the tractor-trailer carrying coils of steel rear-ended another truck, causing one massive coil to dislodge from its covered flatbed and roll forward, smashing the cab and the driver inside, according to witnesses who arrived on the scene shortly after the impact. The roll of steel came to a rest on the left side of the truck. Nearly an hour after the impact, what was left of the cab was still smoldering after it apparently caught on fire.
The driver of the other tractor-trailer, from the Quebec-based company Robert, was seen walking out of his cab and being tended to by paramedics, according to another truck driver from Quebec who had to pull over after OPP began diverting traffic off the highway.
The Robert truck had reportedly just left the truck stop after refuelling. There was little traffic on the highway at the time of the crash and weather conditions were good.
Numerous emergency vehicles, police officers and firefighters attended the scene, while onlookers lined up along the fence separating the truck stop from the highway. A concrete median separates eastbound and westbound traffic on that stretch of the highway — a safety measure implemented after the massive vehicle pile-up in the infamous 1999 fog crash on the 401.
Debris was scattered all around the crash scene Sunday night and lights were set up to make it easier for emergency workers to sift through the wreckage. Eastbound 401 traffic was not affected but all westbound lanes were expected to be closed for hours as OPP complete their investigation. Traffic was routed off the 401 east of the 56 mile marker and back on at Highway 77.
The deceased driver’s name was not released pending notification of next of kin.
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2 comments:
His name was Adam Goron not Gordon.
Hi Barry
Thank you for the correction
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