SIU releases new details about victims of fatal wrong-way collision on Highway 401 in Whitby
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Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit (SIU) has released new details about the victims of a fatal wrong-way collision in Whitby on Monday night. In a release, the SIU said that two of the victims, a 60-year-old man and a 55-year-old woman, were visiting from India. The couple’s three-month-old grandson also died in the multi-vehicle collision, which closed Highway 401 near Highway 412, for several hours. The civilian agency said that the parents of the infant, his 33-year-old father and...

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