- hwybear
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Opp Cruiser Struck On 401
An OPP cruiser was struck and the officer and two citizens were sent to hospital with minor injuries today.
At noon hour (23JUL08), an OPP Highway Safety Division officer had stopped on the north shoulder of the westbound Highway 401, west of Ingersoll, to assist a motorist whose pickup truck had gone into the north ditch. The officer had the driver of the pickup in his cruiser at which time the cruiser was struck from the rear by a westbound van. The van continued on into the north ditch. The officer and two civilians ( drivers of the truck and van) were taken to the local hospital, treated and released. Highway 401 was closed several hours as OPP Technical Traffic Collision Investigators assisted at the scene.