A total of eight people are injured, two of them critically, following a serious rollover on the Queen Elizabeth Way in Burlington.
It happened in the Toronto-bound lanes of the highway near Guelph Line at around 2:30 p.m.
OPP Sgt. Kerry Schmidt tells CP24 that the Toyota minivan lost control, slammed into a guardrail and then rolled over several times before coming to a stop on its rooftop about 100 metres away.
Schmidt said that multiple people were ejected from the vehicle.
“At least two of the victims that were ejected actually came to a rest on the opposite side of the highway and fortunately and amazingly were not driven over by anybody else coming along in the opposite direction, who wouldn’t have been anticipating a body flying out in front of them,” Schmidt said. “That is incredibly fortunate. Certainly it could have resulted in even more significant injuries.”
Schmidt told CP24 that it appears as though at least some of the injured parties were without seatbelts, something he said could have “prevented untold injuries.”
He said that there is large field of debris at the scene, with parts from the vehicle scattered over all lanes of the highway.
“It is a devastating crash here,” he told CP24.
All Toronto-bound lanes were closed at Guleph Line for several hours, but reopened at around 6:30 p.m. The Fort Erie-bound lanes were closed at Walkers Line but reopened at around 5:30 p.m.
