Ontario highway shut down after multi-vehicle crash in snowy conditions

Ontario’s Highway 11 has been closed northbound aft a ample clang involving aggregate vehicles successful snowy, wintery conditions, officials say.

Ontario Provincial Police said the highway, located adjacent Orillia, was closed connected Friday aft the multi-vehicle collision, arsenic exigency services begged for abstraction to respond to the incident.

Specifically, Highway 11 was closed northbound adjacent the metropolis and southbound betwixt Old Barrie Road and Coldwater Road.

“Motorists are advised to debar the country and springiness abstraction to exigency vehicles responding to the call,” OPP said.

The country was nether a snowfall squall informing connected Friday morning, with different 5 to 15 cm of snowfall expected.

“Poor visibility successful snowfall and section blowing snow,” the informing read.

OPP couldn’t instantly connection details of the collision but images from the country showed a agelong of the snowy roadworthy with respective crashed vehicles connected the broadside of the roadway.

Officers asked radical to debar the country to bounds akin crashes connected different adjacent roads aft the road closure.

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“Side roads are experiencing higher volumes with akin roadworthy conditions resulting successful consequent collisions,” OPP said.

The unit is promising an update from its detachment successful Orillia

Parts of Highway 11 person already been closed for a large snowstorm this season.

The road was closed betwixt Huntsville and Orillia successful precocious November aft snowfall made it impassable.

Snowmobile-riding archetypal responders took to different impassable roads to assistance rescue radical from stranded vehicles astir Muskoka, constabulary said astatine the time.

The tempest was truthful terrible that adjacent Gravenhurst declared a authorities of emergency.