Ontario garbage truck driver dead after major collision

The female driver of a Mississauga, Ont., garbage motortruck is dormant aft a superior clang connected Thursday afternoon.

Police were called to nan area of Goreway Drive and Derry Road West astir 2:30 p.m. aft a tractor-trailer and garbage motortruck collided.

Paramedics told Global News that aggregate ambulances arrived astatine nan scene, wherever life-saving measures were performed connected 2 people. Both were taken to hospital, 1 successful life-threatening information and nan different pinch superior injuries.

Const. Moulika Sharma said that nan female driver of nan garbage motortruck was taken to infirmary but succumbed to her injuries. The antheral driver of nan carrier motortruck remains successful infirmary pinch “critical injuries.”

Mississauga occurrence besides attended nan scene, on pinch constabulary and paramedics.

The incident will beryllium investigated by nan Ministry of Labour and Peel police’s awesome collisions bureau.

Anyone pinch grounds — including dashcam footage — is asked to interaction police.