Provincial Police are cracking down on truck drivers across the province after a string of deadly collisions over the summer. 
The OPP held a news conference in Toronto yesterday, announcing charges in three separate crashes that claimed a total of six lives, including two people who were killed in Chatham-Kent at the end of July.
Two of the collisions occurred on Highway 401, one near Port Hope on August 3, 2017, and the other in Chatham Kent on July 30, 2017. The third collision occurred on Highway 48 in the Town of Georgina on July 27, 2017.
In all three incidents, a transport truck travelling on a highway crashed into the back of traffic that was stopped or had slowed down due to road construction or a collision ahead.
“”This series of horrific collisions is driver inattention at its worst and the most tragic reminder in recent history of the tremendous toll on the lives of innocent citizens when commercial transport truck drivers are not paying full attention to the road,” says Commissioner Vince Hawkes. “We are putting drivers on notice that the OPP will pursue every investigative avenue following serious collisions and hold at-fault drivers accountable to the full extent of the law.”
However, Hawkes says he also knows there are many safe commercial transport truck drivers and other road safety advocates who help keep Ontario highways safe.