Ontario garbage truck driver dead after major collision

The pistillate operator of a Mississauga, Ont., garbage motortruck is dormant aft a superior clang connected Thursday afternoon.

Police were called to the country of Goreway Drive and Derry Road West astir 2:30 p.m. aft a tractor-trailer and garbage motortruck collided.

Paramedics told Global News that aggregate ambulances arrived astatine the scene, wherever life-saving measures were performed connected 2 people. Both were taken to hospital, 1 successful life-threatening information and the different with superior injuries.

Const. Moulika Sharma said that the pistillate operator of the garbage motortruck was taken to infirmary but succumbed to her injuries. The antheral operator of the transport motortruck remains successful infirmary with “critical injuries.”

Mississauga occurrence besides attended the scene, on with constabulary and paramedics.

The incidental volition beryllium investigated by the Ministry of Labour and Peel police’s large collisions bureau.

Anyone with grounds — including dashcam footage — is asked to interaction police.