Highway 401 near Trenton continues to be closed Wednesday as police and highways officials begin to haul away the enormous pile of wrecked vehicles. There is said to be an “emergency response plan” in effect apparently because of some of the cargo. OPP say the crashes involve between 30 to 40 tractor-trailers, as well as other vehicles. The photo tweeted by Simon Ostler, assignment editor of CTV News, is quite breathtaking. He draws the attention of readers to the tractor trailer that went zooming off into the woods. The OPP confirms that all eastbound lanes of the 401 are closed along a 30-kilometre stretch of the highway from Brighton to west of Belleville. All but one westbound lane is closed as well. Officials with the Ministry of Environment are on scene for a leak of some kind. Reports from the scene indicate one of the tractor-trailers was carrying more than 40,000 litres of oil. Police said the crashes caused by whiteouts just after midnight. Four people were taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries
