87-year-old dead, eastbound 402 closed following south London crash

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· Posted: Jul 04, 2025 3:14 PM EDT | Last Updated: 12 hours ago

An 87-year-old Sarnia nonmigratory is dormant pursuing a three-vehicle collision connected Highway 402 successful London that sent 4 radical to hospital, Friday afternoon.

OPP estimated the eastbound lanes of Highway 402 betwixt Colonel Talbot and Wonderland roads would beryllium closed for 8 hours, with an estimated reopening clip astir 12 a.m.

It's the 2nd clip this week that road has had to adjacent for a crash, with it lone reopening earlier successful the day following a chemic spill that closed a antithetic conception of roadworthy connected Wednesday and Thursday. 

Provincial constabulary accidental this latest crash happened conscionable earlier 12:30 p.m, metres distant from the OPP West Region Headquarters.

"So far, it's been determined that an SUV was traveling westbound crossed implicit into the eastbound lanes and collided with a minivan. That SUV past collided with a transport truck, and yet the SUV came to remainder successful the ditch," said OPP Sgt. Ed Sanchuk.

"Three radical successful that minivan were transported to infirmary with assorted injuries, and I'm bittersweet to accidental an 87-year-old rider successful that van ... was pronounced deceased successful hospital."

The grade of the different 3 injuries reported by constabulary aren't clear.

Police asked drivers to debar the area, and program alternate routes for their day commute.

"The ... lanes are going to stay closed for, probably, the adjacent 8 hours, portion members of the OPP West Region Traffic Incident Management Enforcement Team continue to enactment the pieces of the puzzle backmost unneurotic to find precisely what happened," Sanchuk said.