A messy weather system tumbling across the GTA led to around 100 crashes Wednesday night into Thursday morning, the OPP says.

“The crashes were really spread out across the region — across the GTA, Burlington, Niagara area. It was widespread everywhere,” Sgt. Kerry Schmidt told the Star.

The scene was similar in Toronto, with cars and trucks sliding into poles, curbs, and concrete walls. According to Sgt. Jason Kraft, from 5 a.m. to 10 a.m. on Thursday, Toronto police responded to 19 property damage-related collisions and 10 personal injury-related collisions, about double what they dealt with during the same stretch Wednesday.

Paramedics said they transported one person to hospital as a result of a crash earlier Thursday.

Pessimistic forecasts issued Wednesday night predicted considerable snowfall in and around Toronto, but they seemed to have fallen short as the snow slowed late Thursday morning.

But Gerald Cheng, a meteorologist with Environment Canada, doesn’t think we’re in the clear just yet.

“I don’t think we’ve been entirely spared. We knew going in that we’d have two waves of snow: one early morning Thursday and one late-night Thursday,” Cheng said. He says that Thursday afternoon still poses a risk of freezing drizzle as well as “on and off” light snow.

The ominous “second wave” of snow will come later Thursday night, Cheng says, as another two to four centimetres is set to dust Toronto and linger into the early morning.

Friday won’t be a respite from the wintery conditions, either. Cheng predicts that the wind chill will cause temperatures to drop to around -12 C on Friday night, eventually warming Sunday.

Schmidt told the Star that the OPP was still cleaning up debris from collisions late Thursday morning and made an appeal to drivers, asking them to “keep monitor the conditions and how they’re driving.”

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Ted Fraser is a breaking news reporter, working out of the Star’s radio room in Toronto. Follow him on Twitter: @ted_fraser