A busy night for emergency crews, responding to multiple collisions on the 401.

Photo courtesy of Essex OPP.

Police and EMS are on the scene of a westbound transport that slid into the ditch near Union Road in Elgin County this morning.

The westbound lanes of the highway were closed for over three hours last night near Bloomfield Road following a crash involving three transports.

Traffic was also being detoured off the 401 in Lakeshore just after 7:30 with multiple collisions being reported – that section of highway finally reopened just before 11.