Toronto police say they are in search of a vehicle that fled the scene of a three-car collision on the Gardiner Expressway just after midnight on Tuesday that sent five people to hospital, one of them with critical injuries.

Police, along with Toronto Paramedic Services and the Toronto Fire Service, were called to the crash site on the Gardiner near Hwy. 427 at around 12:10 a.m.

According to police, a 25-year-old man driving an Acura EL east on the Gardiner Expressway was struck from behind by a Lincoln Town Car that was being driven by a 76-year-old man

A 24-year-old male passenger in the Acura suffered from life-threatening injuries, according to police.

Another man in his 20s and a woman said to be around 18-years-old had serious injuries, according to paramedics.

All three were rushed to a trauma centre.

Two other patients, whose age and gender weren’t released byparamedics, were taken to a local hospital with moderate injuries.

Police believe another vehicle, described as a 2009–2012 Mercedes Benz GL series with front-end damage, was involved in this collision and did not remain at the scene. Investigators are actively looking into this aspect of the collision.

Police closed eastbound lanes on the Gardiner to conduct their investigation. The lanes reopened at around 8 a.m. during the morning rush hour.

For the first six hours of the investigation, police believed only two vehicles had crashed: the Acura and the Lincoln. But around 6:30 a.m. police said they received new, unspecified information suggesting a third vehicle was also involved, and that it had fled the scene.

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