Horrific Ontario crash kills 11
Posted Feb 7, 2012 6:57 am.
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It’s one of the deadliest crashes in Ontario’s history; 11 people are dead after a flatbed truck slammed into a van packed with migrant workers on Monday.
Tire tracks on the grass are all that’s left of the crash site in a rural community northeast of Stratford; the victims’ bodies, as well as the crumpled and shredded shell of the van and the truck involved, were all removed overnight.
Residents say they heard the thunderous boom of impact when the southbound flatbed truck broadsided the van, dragging it 50 metres and pressing it up against the side of a house.
One resident says he ran over and saw dead bodies everywhere in the van.
The only three survivors are in hospital.
