A horrifying wrong-way accident has taken the lives of two drivers early Saturday on Highway 40 near Pickering. The deadly outcome happened despite the desperate efforts of the Durham police to stop the wrong-way vehicle after they received a 911 call alerting them to the menace. The vehicle, an SUV, is said to have glanced off another car near Harwood Road in Ajax around 2.30 a.m. and then continued until it slammed head-on into a red Mazda near Brock Road. A third car then rear-ended the Mazda. The 25-year-old driver of the SUV and the 33-year-old driver of the Mazda were pronounced dead on scene. The driver of the third vehicle suffered minor injuries. “The witnesses called in saying there was a vehicle travelling obviously in the wrong direction on a controlled access highway and officers from the Whitby detachment immediately responded to try to intercept the vehicle but unfortunately we got there too late,” Sgt. Kerry Schmidt told CP24 Saturday morning. 2 dead in wrong-way head-on 401 collision
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A horrifying wrong-way accident has taken the lives of two drivers early Saturday on Highway 40 near Pickering. The deadly outcome happened despite the desperate efforts of the Durham police to stop the wrong-way vehicle after they received a 911 call alerting them to the menace. The vehicle, an SUV, is said to have glanced off another car near Harwood Road in Ajax around 2.30 a.m. and then continued until it slammed head-on into a red Mazda near Brock Road. A third car then rear-ended the Mazda. The 25-year-old driver of the SUV and the 33-year-old driver of the Mazda were pronounced dead on scene. The driver of the third vehicle suffered minor injuries. “The witnesses called in saying there was a vehicle travelling obviously in the wrong direction on a controlled access highway and officers from the Whitby detachment immediately responded to try to intercept the vehicle but unfortunately we got there too late,” Sgt. Kerry Schmidt told CP24 Saturday morning. 