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OPP Accident on the QEW
I was working for a company in Mississauga and as part of our routine we often did periodic patrols of the highway. One night as I was on my way eastbound on the QEW, I was just passing Winston Churchill; I couldn't believe what I was seeing. At first I thought as I saw head lights approaching me straight on, that they were some how shinning over the median in the center of the highway, but they just kept coming so I quickly changed lanes and then I saw it. This big car was driving on the wrong side of the highway, in the fast lane and still going. So I franticly called out to my dispatcher on the radio and told him to notify OPP right away before he kills someone. But I think it was too late, because my dispatcher told me to continue ahead that there was a big accident just ahead of me. As I got to the traffic jam between Mississauga Rd. and HWY. 10. I was so pumped up about what I had just seen and I had to get up to where the cops were so that I could tell them. As I advanced along the left shoulder an OPP car arrived behind me and sounded the emergency horn for me to get out of the way. But I could not so I continued ahead to the accident scene and quickly got out to tell the police what I had just seen. But the female Sergeant immediately told me to get my truck the hell out of here or she was going to write me up. "But I have something important to tell you" I said back to her, to which she replied "I don't care get it out of here now!" So I moved it ahead somewhat and went to mingle with the other tow truck operators who were already there and they began to mock me for what had just happened. Now I go to another individual looking for someone else to help corroborate my story and I did. But now one of my co-drivers had waved me over and told me to go to my truck that I was being called on my radio. And now my dispatcher is telling me that he has OPP on the phone ordering me to vacate the scene or that there company would be tossed of the list.
So I reluctantly left.
Now here is my story.
I observed a person driving on the wrong side of the highway and just a few minutes latter I am on a major accident scene.
Here's what I observed;
Two females lying dead on the highway,
A male party standing screaming over his dead wife,
Two cars smashed together and driven across the lanes into the right shoulder,
A transport with it's front end smashed up on the front, and a witness who said that this lady was trying to get the second lady's door to her car open while standing in the middle of lane two and along comes this transport that plows into the both of them and throws the lady across the highway.
Here's what I think happened;
The car that I saw driving on the wrong side of the highway creamed the side of on of or possibly both of the cars that the ladies were driving and thereby sealed the doors shut on at least one of them, Both cars stopped immediately and went to get out and discuss what had just happened and call for police but one lady could not exit her car so the second one attempted to help her and then were struck by the transport.
Keep in mind that this happened at QEW and highway 10 as I tell you that the following morning I heard that an elderly man was stopped in Burlington for driving on the wrong side of the highway traveling westbound in the eastbound lanes.
I feel so much for these people for what has occurred but my anger go's out to the female Sergeant for not allowing me to tell her what I had seen so that she could put it all together and investigate this matter in detail.
Why did I not pursue it? That is a good question, but I guess all that I can say is that I was afraid to get charged and my company thrown off the list. By the way the company that I worked for warned me to let it go.
This is a true story as I saw it.
