Fiery crash on Highway 401 near Mallorytown

CBC

13 November 2024 at 1:55 pm·1-min read

A pickup truck crashed and caught fire on Highway 401 between Brockville and Mallorytown the morning of Nov. 13, 2024, according to Ontario Provincial Police. (OPP East Region/X - image credit)

A pickup truck crashed and caught fire on Highway 401 between Brockville and Mallorytown Wednesday morning, according to Ontario Provincial Police.

The OPP said on social media the single-vehicle crash happened before the westbound off-ramp from the highway to the Thousand Islands Parkway.

The Ministry of Transportation posted around 11 a.m. that all westbound lanes of the highway were closed from the County Road 2 interchange to the Mallorytown interchange.

Police said around 1:15 p.m. that the highway reopened once they learned injuries in the crash were not considered life-threatening.

The crash happened about 10 kilometres east of Mallorytown and 65 kilometres east of Kingston.

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