This article was last updated on April 16, 2022
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Ontario Provincial Police have confirmed to have towed away the dump truck on Saturday, which shockingly slammed into the Skyway Bridge this week and caused a havoc for drivers for days to come. OPP Sergeant Kerry Schmidt confirmed that “we’ve got the vehicle off, or in the process of” and “it will be secured and held pending OPP vehicle examination.” OPP added that the traffic is continuing at snail-speed in that area and the situation will remain unchanged for a while.
The Toronto-bound Burlington skyway is anticipated to remain closed for at least the long weekend while both cities try to manage the chaos prompted by detouring vehicles, cancelling construction and retiming traffic signals. The extensively used four-lane span was shut down on Thursday after a dump truck with a raised box crashed into an overhead truss and construction scaffolding. The Ministry of Labour confirmed that a plan has been approved to clear wreckage from the bridge on Friday afternoon, implying that engineers will not have a clue about the damage to the bridge until the end of the weekend.
34-year-old Brampton man, Sukhvinder Singh Rai, has been charged with impaired driving and faces a court date on Aug. 22. Hamilton and Burlington officials are gearing up for inevitable traffic jams for at least a week due to the “unprecedented” shutdown. City traffic engineering superintendent, David Ferguson, alleged that the average highway shutdown for a fatal crash in the area is around 12 hours. He said that “I’ve looked back 10, 20 years and I don’t think we’ve ever had one longer than a day.”
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