Kitchener trucker killed on 401
"Ontario's police watchdog is investigating a crash on Highway 401 near Dutton yesterday morning that killed a 22-year-old Kitchener trucker.
The unidentified trucker died after the rig he was driving slammed into the back of another tractor-trailer.
The crash closed the eastbound lanes of the highway for more than eight hours as OPP re-routed traffic onto Currie Road.
The collision happened about 9:30 a.m., said Elgin OPP Const. Michelle Smith.
Elgin OPP officers were escorting a truck towing another tractor-trailer from an earlier crash. In that crash, a tractor-trailer rolled into a ditch on the 401 near Currie Road about 4 a.m.
Police decided it was too dangerous to move the rolled vehicle and called in a tow truck, said Rose Bliss, spokesperson for the Special Investigations Unit.
A marked cruiser with its lights and sirens activated was leading the tow truck. Another marked cruiser followed the tow truck and tractor-trailer.
They were on the south shoulder of the eastbound lanes of the highway when the 22-year-old's tractor-trailer passed the convoy and slammed into the back of another truck, Bliss said." - The London Free Press
http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/CityandR...99423-sun.html
Ok so a trucker dying in an accident on the highway probably isn't one of the most uncommon deaths people read about, but I thought I would start a topic on it because I work in the office of the trucking company he worked for. He owned his own truck and I actually processed all of his paperwork and figured out how much he got paid for loads. I talked to him on the phone a few days before this happened. Our trucks getting in accidents isn't THAT uncommon, but this is the first death we've had and everyone is pretty upset about it. Oh and on top of the fact that he was only 22, he was supposed to get married next weekend. :(