4 cars have gone over Ontario highway guardrails in past week. What’s behind it?
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In four separate incidents this past week, vehicles launched over highway guardrails due to a buildup of snow and 'driver error, according to the OPP.
Four separate vehicles in Ontario have crashed after hitting packed snow on the shoulder of a highway, sending them over guardrails in the past week.
The most recent occurred this past Sunday when Ontario Provincial Police said a vehicle travelling southbound on Highway 427 in Toronto struck the right side of the overpass to Highway 401.
“The vehicle ramped up and over the concrete barrier and upon landing, collided with a transport truck on the eastbound lanes on Highway 401 before finally landing on its roof near the Eglinton Avenue exit on the highway,” OPP said in a news release.
Two people were transported to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
On Friday, a vehicle lost control on icy roads and hit snow on the shoulder, but trees and bushes kept it from falling onto the QEW below after it went over the guardrail.
Then on Jan. 26, two vehicles in separate incidents launched over the Highway 7/8 flyover after hitting snow on the shoulder, which had created a ramp. The driver of the first vehicle was uninjured, but in the second incident hours later, the driver was killed.
Both of those incidents occurred following a winter storm that hit the region on Jan. 25.
In all four cases, snow had built up along the side of the road against the guardrail after being pushed there by snowplows.
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