Highway 7 re-opened just after midnight following a crash that claimed the life of a transport truck driver.
Just before 5 yesterday morning police were called to the scene of serious collision about 1.5 kilometres east of Kaladar.
Police say that two transports collided head-on after one of them pulled out to pass a Greyhound bus on the two lane highway.
One of the transport drivers was pronounced dead at the scene. A post mortem will be done before police release the man’s name.
The driver of the bus and one of his passengers were taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
Highway 7 was closed at the scene, between Highways 41 and 38, for over 17 hours.
A Kingston Police dog searched Frontenac Mall last night for a convict who fled a halfway house across the road, on the grounds of Collins Bay Institution.
Police say it took about 45 minutes searching the area around the mall to find the 31 year-old.
The man, who had breached a condition tied to his release to the halfway house, was found hiding in the area behind Edwards Ford on Bath Road.
A Kingston court is hearing testimony this week about the lives of three girls allegedly killed by their family.
The jury at the Shafia family trial heard how the girls complained about life at home, asked to be taken into foster care and how one attempted suicide.
One girl — Sahar Shafia — had told a school official a year before she died that she had been “emotionally rejected” by her parents.
Assistant principal Josee Fortin also said Sahar told her she was verbally and physically abused by her older brother and that her parents wanted her to leave school.
Fortin testified that it was all too much for Sahar and she took some pills in a suicide attempt.
The bodies of 17-year-old Sahar, her sisters 19-year-old Zainab and 13-year-old Geeti — and 50-year-old Rona Amir Mohammad — were found on June 30, 2009, in a car submerged in a Kingston canal.
The Montreal family was on their way back from a trip to Niagara Falls.
The girls’ parents and brother have each pleaded not guilty to four counts of first-degree murder.
The trial of three people accused of killing four family members in Kingston has heard a 9-1-1 call made by one of the accused.
Hamed Mohammad Shafia called Montreal police after his 19-year-old sister Zainab ran away from home.
The call was made a little more than two months before the bodies of Zainab, her two sisters and her father’s first wife were found in June 2009 in a car submerged in the Rideau Canal.
Shafia and his parents are charged with first-degree murder.
One lane of the westbound 401 at Westbrook Road had to be closed briefly today to allow tow trucks to remove a tractor trailer that jackknifed on the highway.
The transport wasn’t blocking traffic so OPP decided to leave it where it was for a number of hours so as to not affect morning rush hour traffic.
The truck was removed around 11 o’clock.
Police have released more information about a serious collision on Highway 7, about 1.5 kilometres east of Kaladar.
Just before 5 o’clock this morning a westbound tractor trailer pulled out to pass a Greyhound passenger bus and struck an eastbound tractor trailer head-on. The bus was hit by one of the transports.
The driver of the bus and one passenger, along with one of the truck drivers were taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
The crash shutdown Highway 7 between Highway 41 and Highway 38.
A Cornwall man was killed in a multi-vehicle crash on the 401 near Trenton yesterday.
O.P.P. have identified the driver as 59-year-old Andre Lamoureux.
Napanee O.P.P. is still investigating the cause of the collision, at Glen Miller Road, which involved a transport truck and five other vehicles, including a Corrections Canada vehicle with an inmate inside.
The driver of one of the vehicles was killed and an occupant in one of the vehicles was air lifted to Kingston General Hospital with very serious but non-life threatening injuries. That person is a 49-year-old Brighton woman. Two other people were treated and have since been released from hospital.
According to police, several motorists were able to rescue a dog from a burning vehicle at the scene. The dog was taken to a vet and is in good condition.
The westbound lanes of the 401 are still closed this morning at Glen Miller Road in Trenton after a fatal accident involving a tractor trailer and five other vehicles yesterday afternoon.
One person was killed and another, clinging to life, was taken from the scene in an air ambulance. Police say a number of others were injured, though we don’t know at this point how many. We do know that one of the people who suffered minor injuries was an inmate, who was inside a a Corrections Canada Vehicle.
The crash, at about 3:20pm, brought traffic to a standstill in both directions, as debris scattered across the entire highway, including the load of dates the tractor trailer was hauling.
A local off duty OPP Officer was nearby, and was able to help immediately at the scene, which is being described as horrific by police.
Kingston City Council has approved funding for the upcoming Bicentennial Celebrations for Sir John A. Macdonald in 2015.
Last night council voted in favour of alloting a budget of $150,000 for the multi-year plan and project.
A commission has formed to oversee the planning and over the next four years it aims to encourage, organize, provide funding for and spark a wide-range of activities to mark the Bicentennial of Sir John A.’s birth.
Jack Astor’s has been given the green light by Kingston City Council to transform a long empty bank into the city’s newest downtown restaurant.
At their meeting last night city councillors voted in favour of the restaurant chain’s plans for the former TD Bank at King and Brock.
Construction will likely begin in the new year on the new eatery that will feature a roof-top patio.
A former poet in residence at the Kingston Writer’s Workshop is one of 14 winners of the Governor General’s Literary Awards.
Phil Hall of Perth won $25,000 for his book of poetry entitled, Killdeer.
Hall will receive the award from Governor General David Johnston November 24th at Rideau Hall.
There will be a ground breaking ceremony today at CFB Kingston at a national memorial to honour all of Canada’s fallen soldiers.
Plans for the virtual, interactive national archive, at C-F-B Kingston’s Military Communication and Electronics Museum, will be revealed at a groundbreaking ceremony this afternoon.
There are reports the national memorial will feature a series of panels portraying various conflicts and a digital “wall” with a “search” function.
