

Paul Johnston , CP24.com





Police remain on the scene following a massive multiple-vehicle rush-hour crash in Mississauga Friday.

Peel police Const. George Tudos said a black Lincoln Navigator was travelling westbound on Dundas Street when, for unknown reasons, it crashed into more than a dozen other vehicles before hitting a hydro pole near Hurontario Street at around 6 p.m.

Seventeen patients, including the female driver of the SUV, were taken to hospital with minor and non-life-threatening injuries, a spokesperson with Peel Regional Paramedic Services said.

Several hundred people were in the area at the time of the crash, and flocked to the street to offer help and assistance to those involved in the pileup.

“It was amazing how the citizens here in Mississauga just basically put their lives on the line,” one witness to the crash told CP24 at the scene. “They helped everybody out. That’s what you call a good strong community.”

As of 11 p.m., vehicles with deployed airbags, crushed bumpers and sides, and debris of all sorts littered Dundas Street, which remains closed east of Hurontario Street.

Efforts are currently underway to remove the damaged vehicles from the street.

Police tell CP24 they expect to reopen the street shortly.