Kitchener impaired driver broke through road closure and narrowly avoided crash before trying to flee: Police
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A Kitchener, Ont. driver has been arrested after police say he broke through a road closure barricade on Highway 401 and narrowly avoided causing another collision. The highway had been closed following an earlier fatal crash.
A Kitchener, Ont. driver has been arrested after police say he broke through a road closure barricade on Highway 401 and narrowly avoided causing another collision.
Police closed Highway 401 westbound near Cambridge, Ont. following a fatal crash around 8 p.m. Thursday.
According to a video posted by OPP on Friday, Const. Kerry Schmidt said during the investigation, a vehicle drove through the closure around 1 a.m., speeding towards the officers and first responders.
“One of the MTO road maintenance crews observed what was happening, got on the radio and radioed up ahead to a patrol unit at the crash scene,” said Schmidt. “They got wind of this vehicle approaching them. They started blasting their airhorns alerting the officers and tow truck drivers that were on scene at the location.”
According to the video, the driver of the vehicle came to a screeching halt, narrowly avoiding a collision with the tow truck that was dealing with one of the broken down vehicles at the scene.
Despite attempting to flee the area, the driver was stopped and arrested for impaired and dangerous driving.
