Police Suspect Alcohol Was Behind 401 Crash

Posted December 31, 2007 12:00 pm.

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Alcohol may have been a factor in a crash on Highway 401 at Renforth on Sunday night after a car slammed into the back of a fire truck.

The truck was responding to a hit-and-run crash when it was rear ended. The eastbound collector lanes through the stretch were shut down until the early morning hours Monday.

The driver of the car that slammed into the fire truck was transported to hospital with life-threatening injuries.

Earlier Sunday, a nasty two-car collision on the 401 near Warden killed two people, including a 71-year-old Mississauga man.

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