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CTV News
6 days ago
- General
- CTV News
Serious collision in Middlesex County
Police are investigating a collision on Pratt Siding Road between Longwoods Road and McMurchy Line on June 2, 2025. (Source: Bing Maps) Middlesex OPP say a serious single-vehicle collision has closed Pratt Siding Road between Longwoods Road and McMurchy Line. Paramedics and Southwest firefighters are on scene. Officials are asking the public to avoid the area. Updates will be provided when available.
CTV News
7 days ago
- General
- CTV News
Fire in Kilworth deemed suspicious
Firefighters and police respond to emergency (Goami/iStock/Getty Images Plus) Middlesex OPP have confirmed that a structure fire in Kilworth is being considered suspicious. According to police, the fire took place on Saturday morning at around 8:30 on Crestview Drive in Middlesex Centre. No injuries were reported as a result of the fire. The fire has been deemed suspicious, and the Middlesex OPP Crime Unit is investigating alongside the Office of the Fire Marshal. Anyone with information is asked to contact police.
CTV News
26-05-2025
- CTV News
‘How could this have possibly happened': Attention turns to Thames Centre intersection where five lives were lost
A candlelit vigil was held to honour the five victims killed in a crash. Scott Miller reports. While Walkerton grieves the loss of the five victims in Friday's crash in Thames Centre, attention has also turned to the intersection where the crash took place. Walkerton crash Thames Centre - May 2025 Flowers and stuffed toys seen at the site of the crash in Thames Centre, Ont. on May 26, 2025. (Bryan Bicknell/CTV News London) Traffic was back to normal on Monday along Thorndale Road at Cobble Hills Road northeast of London. An indentation through a ditch and into a farmer's field and flowers attached to a barbed wire fence, were what's left after the tragic collision. Commuter Mark Pinnegar, who travels through this intersection several times a week, is trying to make sense of it. Walkerton crash Thames Centre - May 2025 Mark Pinnegar, who travels through the intersection multiple times a week, seen in Thames Centre, Ont. on May 26, 2025. (Bryan Bicknell/CTV News London) 'I know the intersection well, and I couldn't figure out why, at that time of the day on Friday with the weather that we had, how this could have possibly happened. I just, I don't know,' he mused aloud with exasperation. Middlesex OPP said late Friday afternoon an SUV collided with a transport truck, before colliding with a second vehicle at the intersection. All five people in the SUV died. Ron Steele owns the land on the southwest corner where the vehicle came to rest, about 200 feet west of the stop sign on Cobble Hills Road. He said he has seen crashes along this stretch of Thorndale Road, but not at this particular intersection. 'Well, the only thing out of the ordinary is that it has the hill over there, which is a little difficult seeing traffic coming this way,' he explained, referring to drivers coming from the south and checking to their east for any westbound traffic. Walkerton crash Thames Centre - May 2025 A speed limit sign seen near the intersection of Cobble Hills Road and Thorndale Road in Thames Centre, Ont. on May 26, 2025. (Bryan Bicknell/CTV News London) Cyclist Rob Moser said he has seen drivers on Cobble Hills Road miss the stop sign. 'Especially if you're coming from the south, you come over a few risers and then it's like 'okay, pick up some speed now.' You just have to look out to a farm field, and you miss the stop sign altogether,' he said. Cobble Hills Road borders Middlesex and Oxford Counties. Thames Centre Council will consider a motion at its Monday meeting asking both counties to consider 'conducting a comprehensive traffic and roadway study of the intersection following the conclusion of the ongoing OPP investigation.' In the meantime, Mark Pinnegar said he can't help but think of the families affected by the tragedy at this rural crossroads. 'It might not really be any of my business to be here at all, but I've been consumed by this since it happened. And it's just a sad, sad thing,' he lamented.
National Post
12-05-2025
- National Post
Police offer new details in wild chase, crash that shut major London, Ontario street
A man became 'unresponsive' following a wild police chase that started north of London and ended in a busy part of the city's Masonville neighbourhood, Ontario Provincial Police say. Article content It was about 9 p.m. Saturday when Middlesex OPP began pursuing a driver from Butler Street in Lucan-Biddulph, police said, following a disturbance there. Two cruisers were struck, police said, adding the chase continued to Richmond Street near Masonville mall. Article content On Sunday, the police probe focused on a car that appeared to have collided with an OPP cruiser on Richmond Street near Jacksway Crescent. The street was shut down throughout the day for the investigation, which involves Ontario's police watchdog. Article content Article content 'During the interaction with police, the male became unresponsive. Officers administered first aid and the male was transported to a local hospital,' Middlesex OPP said in a Sunday statement that didn't detail his condition. Article content One neighbourhood resident told The Free Press they saw the driver of the car hit with a police Taser and then taken away in an ambulance. 'He was shouting, screaming and police told the man to get on the ground, to not move and they Tasered him,' Ahmed Mazed said, referencing the brand name of a stun gun used by police to avoid firing bullets. Article content 'We were surprised. This is usually a quiet area. Nothing happens.' Article content The provincial police watchdog, the Special Investigations Unit, investigates all cases of serious injury, death, gunfire and allegations of sexual assault involving police. SIU officials did not respond to a request for comment on Sunday. Article content Video posted on social media showed nearly a dozen police vehicles, both London police and the OPP, along with an ambulance on the scene late Saturday night. Article content Throughout Sunday, Richmond Street was closed between Sunnyside Drive and Hillview Boulevard, just south of Masonville mall. A damaged Ford Fusion on the boulevard on the west side of Richmond Street appeared to have been boxed in by an OPP cruiser that was also damaged. Article content Article content An officer took photographs of the car that had its hood popped and its driver-side door open, while another officer took measurements of the scene where more than a dozen evidence markers were placed on the road. Article content At about 4:30 p.m., London police announced the street was re-opened to traffic in both directions. Article content Shortly after 11:15 a.m. Saturday, London police say officers were called to the area just north of the Cheapside Street entrance to Fanshawe College and forced homeowners on Irving Place to leave their homes. Article content
