highway safety division Detachment
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CARJACKING ON HIGHWAY 427 IN TORONTO
Highway Safety Division [136 words] 12/11/2025 3:51pm (0 image)
Officers from the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Highway Safety Division (HSD) Toronto and Mississauga detachments are seeking public assistance in relation to a carjacking and collision that are believed to be related. On Wednesday December 10, 2025, just after 6:00 pm a collision between two vehicles occurred on the northbound lanes of Highway 427 approaching Highway 401 in...
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SIU INVOKES MANDATE IN TORONTO
Highway Safety Division [128 words] 11/28/2025 4:50pm (0 image)
The province's Special Investigations Unit (SIU) has invoked its mandate following a collision involving a police vehicle on Highway 400 in North York. On Friday, November 28, 2025, at approximately 7:00 am, an Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Highway Safety Division officer from the Toronto Detachment was involved in a collision with a passenger vehicle in the northbound lane...
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OPP INVESTIGATING FATAL COLLISION IN NORTH YORK
Highway Safety Division [109 words] 11/10/2025 1:10am (0 image)
Members of the Highway Safety Division of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) are investigating a fatal collision involving a transport truck and a pedestrian in North York. On Sunday, November 9, 2025, at approximately 6:45 pm, Toronto OPP officers were notified of a collision on Highway 401 westbound express at Keele Street overpass. A 30-year-old male was pronounced decea...
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SUSPENDED DRIVER ARRESTED AND CHARGED FOR FIREARMS OFFENCES
Highway Safety Division [286 words] 10/28/2025 8:25am (0 image)
A driver was arrested and charged criminally with driving and firearms offences after he was caught driving while serving a 1-year driver's licence suspension because of a Criminal Code impaired driving conviction. On Saturday, October 25, 2025, at 10:31 am, an Officer from the Burlington Detachment was conducting speed enforcement on Highway 6 near Leeming Rd in Hamilton. Auto...
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SIX VEHICLE COLLISION CAUSED BY VEHICLE CROSSING INTO ONCOMING LANES RESULTS IN FATALITY
Highway Safety Division [215 words] 10/23/2025 10:50am (0 image)
Officers from the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), Highway Safety Division (HSD) - Niagara Detachment are investigating a six-vehicle collision caused by a vehicle crossing over into the oncoming lanes that resulted in a fatality to the driver of the vehicle that crossed over. At approximately 6:45 am on Wednesday, October 22, 2025, a vehicle travelling southbound on highway 406 n...
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SUDDEN DEATH INVESTIGATION ON HIGHWAY 403
Highway Safety Division [164 words] 10/20/2025 1:50pm (0 image)
Officers from the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), Highway Safety Division (HSD) - Burlington Detachment are investigating after a pedestrian was struck and killed on highway 403 in Hamilton on Saturday. Just before 4 pm on Saturday, October 18, 2025, a vehicle travelling westbound on highway 403 past Aberdeen Ave in the City of Hamilton struck and critically injured a pedestri...
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SUDDEN DEATH INVESTIGATION ON HIGHWAY 403
Highway Safety Division [164 words] 10/20/2025 1:49pm (0 image)
Officers from the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), Highway Safety Division (HSD) - Burlington Detachment are investigating after a pedestrian was struck and killed on highway 403 in Hamilton on Saturday. Just before 4 pm on Saturday, October 18, 2025, a vehicle travelling westbound on highway 403 past Aberdeen Ave in the City of Hamilton struck and critically injured a pedestri...
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TWO VEHICLE COLLISION INVOLVING MOTORCYCLE RESULTS IN FATALITY AT INTERSECTION OF HIGHWAY 6 AND UPPER JAMES ST
Highway Safety Division [252 words] 10/1/2025 11:00am (0 image)
TWO VEHICLE COLLISION INVOLVING MOTORCYCLE RESULTS IN FATALITY AT INTERSECTION OF HIGHWAY 6 AND UPPER JAMES ST (BURLINGTON, ON) - Officers from the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), Highway Safety Division (HSD) - Burlington Detachment are investigating a two-vehicle collision between a motorcycle and a transport truck that resulted in a fatality to the driver of the motorcycle. At a...
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FATAL COLLISION UNDER INVESTIGATION ON HIGHWAY 401 IN CLARINGTON
Highway Safety Division [159 words] 9/29/2025 1:40pm (0 image)
Officers from the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), Highway Safety Division (HSD) - Whitby Detachment, are investigating a three-vehicle collision that resulted in one fatality. On Monday, September 29, 2025, at 6:01 am, the Whitby OPP were called to a collision on Highway 401 eastbound at Holt Rd, in the Municipality of Clarington. Highway 401 eastbound at Bowmanville Ave....
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BURLINGTON OPP INVESTIGATING ATTEMPTED CAR JACKING ON HIGHWAY 403 IN HAMILTON
Highway Safety Division [160 words] 9/26/2025 8:15am (0 image)
Members from the Burlington Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) are investigating an attempted car jacking that occurred in the westbound lanes of highway 403 near Alberton Rd in the City of Hamilton at approximately 12:30 am on Monday, September 15, 2025. The victim was travelling in a dark stretch of the 403 westbound in Hamilton when they observed a vehicle...
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THREE PEOPLE FACING WEAPONS CHARGES AFTER POLICE INVESTIGATION
Highway Safety Division [206 words] 9/24/2025 3:25pm (0 image)
Three individuals are facing firearms-related charges following a traffic stop in Oshawa. On Friday, September 19, 2025, at approximately 6:00 pm, officers from the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Highway Safety Division (HSD) Highway 407 and Toronto Detachments conducted a traffic stop on Highway 407 near Harmony Road in Oshawa, Ontario. As a result of the traffic stop, Inder...
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TWO VEHICLE COLLISION INVOLVING MOTORCYCLE RESULTS IN FATALITY AT INTERSECTION OF HIGHWAY 58 AND THOROLD STONE ROAD
Highway Safety Division [200 words] 9/22/2025 9:25am (0 image)
TWO VEHICLE COLLISION INVOLVING MOTORCYCLE RESULTS IN FATALITY AT INTERSECTION OF HIGHWAY 58 AND THOROLD STONE ROAD (NIAGARA, ON) - Officers from the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), Highway Safety Division (HSD) - Niagara Detachment are investigating a two-vehicle collision between a motorcycle and a pickup truck that resulted in a fatality to the driver of the motorcycle. At appro...
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- UPDATE #1 - NIAGARA OPP INVESTIGATING ROCKS THROWN AT MOVING VEHICLES - ONE INDIVIDUAL CHARGED
Highway Safety Division [159 words] 9/8/2025 3:15pm (0 image)
- UPDATE #1 - NIAGARA OPP INVESTIGATING ROCKS THROWN AT MOVING VEHICLES - ONE INDIVIDUAL CHARGED - (NIAGARA, ON) - One individual has been charged in connection with incidents in which police believe rocks were thrown at moving vehicles in the Niagara Region. Between June and August 2025, the Niagara Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) received multiple repo...
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SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS UNIT INVOKES MANDATE IN WELLAND - One Person Injured
Highway Safety Division [132 words] 9/6/2025 10:46am (0 image)
SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS UNIT INVOKES MANDATE IN WELLAND One Person Injured (WELLAND, ON) - The province's Special Investigations Unit (SIU) has invoked its mandate following a collision involving a police vehicle on Highway 58A in Welland. On Friday, September 5, 2025, at approximately 9:40 pm, an officer in a police vehicle from the Niagara Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (...
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POLICE RESPOND TO MEDICAL EMERGENCY RESULTING IN THREE VEHICLE COLLISION ON QEW
Highway Safety Division [190 words] 9/2/2025 11:50am (0 image)
POLICE RESPOND TO MEDICAL EMERGENCY RESULTING IN THREE VEHICLE COLLISION ON QEW (BURLINGTON, ON) - Officers from the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), Highway Safety Division (HSD) - Burlington Detachment are investigating a medical emergency which resulted in a three-vehicle collision and the death of one of the involved drivers. At 6:45 pm on Sunday, August 31, 2025, reports were re...
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FATAL SINGLE VEHICLE COLLISION ON HIGHWAY 410
Highway Safety Division [131 words] 8/31/2025 9:35am (0 image)
One person is deceased following a single vehicle collision on Highway 410 northbound near Courtneypark Drive East in the City of Mississauga. At approximately 9:30 pm on Saturday, August 30, 2025, members of the Mississauga Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to a report of a passenger vehicle that had collided into a center median. As a result of...
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FIREARM LOCATED WHEN A BLOCKER TRUCK PROTECTING A COLLISION SCENE WAS HIT
Highway Safety Division [272 words] 8/14/2025 2:30pm (3 images)
Officers Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), Highway Safety Division (HSD) - Whitby Detachment are investigating a two-vehicle collision with a road maintenance vehicle and a passenger vehicle. On Thursday, August 14, 2025, at 12:42 am, Whitby OPP were on scene of a police investigation on Highway 401 Eastbound near Bennett Rd. in the Municipality of Clarington. At this time th...
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ROAD RAGE INCIDENT RESULTS IN TWO INDIVIDUALS BEING STABBED
Highway Safety Division [246 words] 8/12/2025 3:15pm (0 image)
Officers from the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), Highway Safety Division (HSD) - Toronto Detachment are investigating a road rage incident involving two motor vehicles on Highway 401 Eastbound Collectors near Brimley Rd. in the City of Toronto that resulted in two parties being stabbed. On Monday, August 11, 2025, at approximately 4:37 pm, members of the Toronto Detachment...
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OPP INVESTIGATING FATAL COLLISION IN MISSISSAUGA
Highway Safety Division [123 words] 8/10/2025 12:45pm (0 image)
Members of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Highway Safety Division are investigating a fatal single vehicle rollover on Highway 401 at Highway 410. On Sunday, August 10, 2025, at approximately 3:30 am, officers attended the scene of a collision on the Highway 401 eastbound ramp to northbound Highway 410. The driver of the vehicle, a 23-year-old female from Brampton, was...
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-UPDATE #1- OPP INVESTIGATING A FATAL COLLISION ON HIGHWAY 48 - Charges Laid
Highway Safety Division [176 words] 8/5/2025 5:35pm (0 image)
One person has been charged in connection with a fatal head-on collision on Highway 48 in Ballantrae, Whitchurch-Stoufville. On Sunday, August 3, 2025, at approximately 9:20 pm, officers from the Aurora Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to a two-vehicle collision on Highway 48 between St. John Sideroad and Ballantrae Commons. A 35-year-old...
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POLICE RESPOND TO MULTIPLE SERIOUS COLLISIONS DURING THE CIVIC LONG WEEKEND ACROSS THE GTHA
Highway Safety Division [424 words] 8/5/2025 4:35pm (0 image)
Officers from the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Highway Safety Division (HSD) responded to multiple serious collisions across the Greater Toronto Hamilton Area (GTHA) throughout the Civic long weekend. On Saturday, August 2, 2025, at approximately 1:30 am, a tractor trailer travelling westbound on the Queen Elizabeth Way approaching Christie Street in Grimsby was observed drif...
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NIAGARA OPP INVESTIGATING ROCKS THROWN AT MOVING VEHICLES
Highway Safety Division [56 words] 7/31/2025 1:30pm (0 image)
The Niagara detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) is investigating incidents of rocks being intentionally thrown at moving vehicles travelling on the highway. Incidents have been reported in the following areas: -Highway 406 between Westchester Ave and Fourth Ave, St Catharines. -QEW near Mountain Rd, Niagara Falls. -Highway 58 near Pine St, Thorold....
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LIMOUSINE DRIVER WITH 10 PASSENGERS CHARGED WITH IMPAIRED AND DANGEROUS DRIVING
Highway Safety Division [223 words] 7/29/2025 11:25am (1 image)
A limousine driver was arrested and charged with Impaired Operation of a Motor Vehicle after the passengers forced the driver to pull the vehicle to the shoulder of the QEW out of concern for their safety. On Friday, July 11, 2025, at 10:56 pm, members from the Burlington OPP responded to the QEW Toronto bound near Fifty Rd in the City of Hamilton. One of 10 passengers from a...
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INDIVIDUAL ARRESTED AFTER DRUG SEIZURE IN MISSISSAUGA
Highway Safety Division [110 words] 7/25/2025 4:00pm (3 images)
The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) have arrested and charged an individual following a drug-related investigation in Mississauga. On Thursday, July 24, 2025, officers of the Mississauga OPP conducted a traffic stop on the Queen Elizabeth Way (QEW) at Erin Mills Parkway in Mississauga. As a result of the investigation, officers seized approximately four kilograms of suspect...
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OPP RESPONDING TO FATAL COLLISION ON HIGHWAY 401
Highway Safety Division [166 words] 7/19/2025 9:10am (0 image)
Members of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Highway Safety Division - Toronto Detachment are investigating a fatal multi-vehicle collision that occurred early this morning on Highway 401 in Toronto. On Saturday, July 19, 2025, shortly after 5:00 am, officers attended the scene of a collision on Highway 401. There was an initial collision involving a tractor trailer and an S...
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OPP SEEKING PUBLIC’S ASSISTANCE RELATING TO AN ASSAULT ON HIGHWAY 407 ETR
Highway Safety Division [154 words] 7/12/2025 7:55pm (0 image)
OPP SEEKING PUBLIC'S ASSISTANCE RELATING TO AN ASSAULT ON HIGHWAY 407 ETR (VAUGHAN, ON) - The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Highway 407 Detachment is seeking witnesses or dashcam footage related to an assault that occurred on Highway 407 ETR eastbound near Pine Valley Drive in the City of Vaughan at approximately 1:50 pm, on Saturday, July 12, 2025. Police received a report of a mal...
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PASSENGER VEHICLE REAR-ENDS A COMMERCIAL MOTOR VEHICLE, RESULTING IN ONE FATALITY
Highway Safety Division [152 words] 7/8/2025 3:00pm (0 image)
Officers from the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), Highway Safety Division (HSD) - Highway 407 Detachment are investigating motor vehicle collision that resulted in one fatality. On Wednesday July 7, 2025, at 4:53 am, the Highway 407 OPP responded to a collision on Highway 407 Eastbound, East of Mississauga Rd, in the City of Brampton. A black Honda Civic rear-ended a commercial...
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TWO VEHICLE COLLISION INVOLVING MOTORCYCLE RESULTS IN FATALITY ON HIGHWAY 403 NEAR LINCOLN ALEXANDER PARKWAY
Highway Safety Division [209 words] 7/8/2025 8:00am (0 image)
TWO VEHICLE COLLISION INVOLVING MOTORCYCLE RESULTS IN FATALITY ON HIGHWAY 403 NEAR LINCOLN ALEXANDER PARKWAY (HAMILTON, ON) - Officers from the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), Highway Safety Division (HSD) - Burlington Detachment are investigating a two-vehicle collision between a motorcycle and a sedan that resulted in a fatality to the driver of the motorcycle. At 2:09 pm on Mond...
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FATAL COLLISION CLOSES HIGHWAY 48 IN SUTTON
Highway Safety Division [112 words] 6/13/2025 1:15pm (0 image)
One person is deceased as a result of a motor vehicle collision on Highway 48 in Sutton. On June 13, 2025, just before 9:00 am, the Aurora Detachment Highway Safety Division (HSD) of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to a two-vehicle collision involving a dump truck and a passenger vehicle at Highway 48 and High Street. The lone driver of the car a 31-year-old man,...
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E-SCOOTER COLLISION RESULTS IN A FATALITY
Highway Safety Division [152 words] 6/11/2025 2:50pm (0 image)
Officers from the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), Highway Safety Division (HSD) - Whitby Detachment, are investigating a motor vehicle collision that resulted in one fatality. On Wednesday June 4, 2025, at 4:41 pm, the Whitby OPP were called to a collision on Highway 401 westbound onramp from southbound Liverpool Rd, in the City of Pickering. The collision involved a red SUV...
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DRIVER ARRESTED AND CHARGED TWICE IN THREE DAYS
Highway Safety Division [268 words] 6/9/2025 9:40am (0 image)
A resident of North Dundas Township was arrested and charged twice in three days for driving offences. On Friday, June 6, 2025, just after 10:00 am, officers with the Russell County Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) stopped a vehicle on Notre Dame Street in Russell Township after the ALPR indicated that the licence plates should not be in use. The driver was arrest...
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MOTORCYCLE COLLISION RESULTS IN ONE FATALITY ON HIGHWAY 401
Highway Safety Division [121 words] 6/4/2025 2:10pm (0 image)
Officers from the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), Highway Safety Division (HSD) - Whitby Detachment, are investigating motor vehicle collision that resulted in one fatality. On Wednesday June 4, 2025, at 5:48 am, the Whitby OPP were called to a collision on eastbound Highway 401, east of Harmony Road, in the City of Oshawa. A motorcycle collided with the rear of a tractor trailer...