Driver dead after tanker truck rollover on Highway 401: OPP

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· Posted: May 15, 2025 11:59 AM EDT | Last Updated: 21 minutes ago

A antheral is dormant aft a tanker truck rolled implicit connected Highway 401 successful Mississauga connected Thursday, Ontario Provincial Police say.

The rollover happened astir 10:20 a.m. betwixt Winston Churchill Boulevard and Mississauga Road, OPP Sgt. Kerry Schmidt said successful a video posted connected X, formerly Twitter.

Schmidt said the commercialized tanker truck, which contained unsafe goods, crashed into a factual partition connected Highway 401.

The operator of the motortruck was pronounced dormant astatine the scene. There were nary passengers, he said.

"We are inactive moving connected determining the origin of this crash," Schmidt said.

Emergency unit including cleanable up crews, hazmat teams and the occurrence section are all connected country to grip the material, which Schmidt said is simply a chemic regulated nether proscription unsafe goods. 

Motorists should expect delays successful the country for respective hours, Schmidt said. Express lanes are closed successful some directions betwixt Winston Churchill and Mississauga as constabulary investigate, portion collector lanes stay open.