One person is dead and another is in life-threatening condition after a driver was travelling in the wrong direction on Highway 401 in Milton Sunday, according to police. Police say that they responded to the crash on Highway 401 in the eastbound lanes at Guelph Line at around 3:30 a.m. Sunday morning. A 28-year-old female from Milton was travelling westbound in the eastbound lane and collided with a sedan that was being driven by a 22-year-old male from Brampton, police said. Both...
A driver who witnessed a wrong-way police pursuit on Highway 401 moments before a fatal crash said he was hoping the chase would have been called off before lives were lost. The pursuit began after a robbery near Green Road and Highway 2 in Bowmanville just before 8 p.m. on Monday. At some point the vehicle fleeing entered Highway 401 in the wrong direction, police said. Around that time, Brodie Mills was driving to dinner, heading westbound on Highway 401 to Boston Pizza in Ajax, Ont....