10-year-old boy dead after chain-reaction crash on QEW
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A 10-year-old boy is dead following a chain-reaction crash on the QEW.
A 10-year-old boy from Beamsville has died following a three-vehicle, chain-reaction crash late Thursday afternoon in Niagara Region.
The collision happened around 5:30 p.m. on the Niagara-bound Queen Elizabeth Way (QEW), just west of Tufford Road, in the town of Lincoln.
In a video posted to social media Friday morning, OPP Sgt. Kerry Schmidt said police understand at this point that the driver of a vehicle was travelling on the QEW and approached “slowing or stopped traffic.”
“That vehicle, operated by a 31-year-old from Mississauga, collided into the rear of a white SUV being driven by a 44-year-old woman from Beamsville with two 10-year-old brothers in the back seat,” he said, explaining the vehicle was then pushed forward into another white SUV driven by a 37-year-old woman from Milton.
Schmidt said paramedics and firefighters removed one of the boys who was stuck in the back of the white SUV and rushed him to hospital with serious injuries.
That child aws pronounced dead around 9 p.m. last night, he said.
The victim’s 44-year-old mother, her other 10-year-old son, and the 37-year-old driver of the other white SUV were taken to hospital with minor injuries.
