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Highway 407 was temporarily shut down Monday evening, after a suspect crashed when headed eastbound in the westbound lanes.

Emergency crews were called to the scene at Highway 407 at Derry Road in Woodbridge around 8:00 p.m. after reports of a car driving the wrong way, allegedly at speeds of up to 160 km/hr.

Ontario Provincial Police units tried to stop the suspect’s car, but eventually had to make contact with the vehicle to get it to stop.

The female driver was arrested and taken to hospital as a precaution.

The OPP cruiser sustained damage in the incident. The investigation is ongoing, and there is no word on what, if any charges the driver is facing.

(From CityTV News)

ORO-MEDONTE- OPP have charged an off-duty Barrie police officer with drunk driving and dangerous driving. Const. Brian Byblow was stopped originally for speeding along Highway 400 by OPP in Oro-Medonte around 8:30 p.m. Wednesday. Byblow, 42, is on medical leave from his job and has 21 years of police experience.
The situation is still being investigated by OPP.

It started off as a common traffic accident on one of Toronto’s busiest highways.

A collision between a Pontiac Grand Prix and a Plymouth Voyager minivan shut down traffic on Highway 400 just north of Lloydtown-Aurora Rd on a hot June afternoon in 2009.

Two officers arrived on the scene to find nine injured people, and two tow trucks already there. When the questioning began, police realized that not everything was as it seemed. The collision appeared staged, the injuries falsified.

This week, after a lengthy investigation, the Ontario Provincial Police charged 11 people — including the two truck drivers — with fraud.

“Each accident is getting more and more sophisticated. It’s hard to pinpoint what makes a case suspicious” said Kirk Quinn, a team leader for the Ontario injury rings investigations unit for the Insurance Bureau of Canada who heard about incident.

Nobel
On Monday, a Halifax man fell asleep at the wheel while driving southbound on Nobel Road near Sylvan Drive. The twenty-one-year-old driver veered off the road, struck a private drive sign before his car rolled, said West Parry Sound OPP Staff Sgt. Ernie Klink. The man didn’t suffer any injuries.

Provincial police say 2 men are facing charges arising from an alleged road rage incident on Highway 400. Police say they were called Saturday morning after motorists reported seeing a Dodge Caravan and a Mitsubishi following each other at high speeds in Innisfil. On two separate occasions they boxed in an SUV, causing it to stop completely in a live lane.

Maybe his passenger was trying to say, “Oh-oh, this is a bad idea” — but that didn’t stop a 51-year-old Burlington man from allegedly using an inflatable doll to try sneak into the QEW’s high-occupancy lanes.

OPP officers pulled over the driver around 8:30 a.m. Wednesday and found he was accompanied by a blow-up doll dressed to look like a female passenger.

“It was the cliche inflatable doll — the type you see in a certain type of movie, if you know what I mean,” said Const. Graham Williamson. “The doll’s mouth was in an ‘O’ shape and it was dressed in a baseball cap and jacket.”

A tipster alerted police, claiming to see the driver in the highway’s HOV lanes in Burlington. Police located the black SUV going east near Dorval Dr. in Oakville.

“The doll was strapped in with a seatbelt, so its safety was considered,” said Williamson, who added such incidents are rare.

On March 1 at 8:23 p.m., the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) received three separate 911 calls about a vehicle that was being driven in an erratic manner on the 401 Highway.

A police investigation determined that the driver of a small SUV got upset about a tractor-trailer unit tailgating him. The driver then slammed on his brakes several times in front of the tractor-trailer, causing it to swerve and slow down. The man then continued to do this to two other tractor-trailer units, causing both to take evasive action.

The driver, a 39-year-old Ridgetown man is facing a charge of careless driving under the Highway Traffic Act.

The Canadian Press
Date: Friday Mar. 4, 2011 5:19 PM ET
MARKHAM, Ont. — A Toronto man has a court date later this month in a road rage incident that sent a tow truck operator to hospital.

Police say the tow truck and a car were northbound on Highway 404 on Wednesday when an altercation took place between the drivers.

Both vehicles pulled over just south of Major Mackenzie Drive and police say the drivers got out of their vehicles and exchanged words.

Police say the driver of the car then hit the tow truck driver in the head with an object and left the scene.

The tow truck driver had to be transported to York Central Hospital with non life-threatening injuries.

Bruce Lethbridge, 45, is to appear March 22 in Newmarket, Ont., court on charges including dangerous operation of a motor vehicle, uttering a threat and assault with a weapon.