Five Indian students mourned after crash
Five students from India died in a crash on highway 401 on the weekend. The Indian community is in mourning. Three had been studying at a commercial college in Montreal.
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YUL514 09:20 on 2022-03-16 Permalink
We drove to Toronto a few weeks ago with three young kids in tow, we left after work/school at around 6PM on a Friday and between traffic to get off island and a quick stop for a bite to eat we were driving later in the evening. The 401 especially late at night is crowded with 18 wheelers (you should have seen the amount of trucks driving eastbound, insane).
One truck slightly got into our lane (without signalling) as we were ready to pass him in the left lane, I hit the brakes and he ended up veering fully into our lane. I’m convinced he fell asleep and this was at only about 11PM. This tragic accident occurred at 3:30 AM. I didn’t like driving late at night especially with kids let alone at 330AM when it’s a bunch of sleepy truckers. Yikes.
Ian 18:10 on 2022-03-16 Permalink
I had something similar happen to me on the Jersey Turnpike in broad daylight. Some of those guys don’t really sleep much at all.
That said, this is how we get raspberries in winter. There really are an astounding number of trucks on the road at any given time, especially coming into the big Canadian cities.