Whiteout Causes Over 100 Vehicles to Crash on Ontario Highway

Whiteout conditions were a factor Sunday for a multi-car pileup on a stretch of highway about an hour north of Toronto that left numerous passengers with broken limbs and back and neck injuries.

A half-kilometre stretch of the northbound lanes of Highway 400 near Bradford was littered with the wreckage of about 50 cars and trucks, Ontario Provincial Police said. About 30 vehicles were in another pileup north of that location, police said. The Toronto Star reported a third pileup involving 15 vehicles.

"It's like a scrapyard out here — vehicles everywhere, some in the
ditch. It's unbelievable," OPP Const. Dave Woodford told CBC Newsworld.

There were "multiple injuries," some serious, but none considered life-threatening, he said.

"We have neck and back injuries, he said. "We have people with
broken arms, broken legs. There are serious injuries to a lot of
people."