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They call it Black Friday for the sales, but it was Black Ice Friday for motorists in the capital.

A string of crashes at the interchange of Highway 7 to Highway 417 in the Stittsville area just after 6 a.m. had vehicles in the ditch — one on its roof — being tended to by a string of emergency vehicles.

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While those first crashes were being mopped up, there were also single-vehicle crashes on Highway 7 before and after Dwyer Hill Road — a pickup truck that rolled several times — around 7 a.m.

In Ottawa, there was a 6:28 a.m. head-on crash at the intersection of Mitch Owen and Albion roads that left one person initially trapped before being taken to hospital.