{"id":131626,"date":"2026-07-16T10:50:55","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T10:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/131626\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T10:50:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T10:50:55","slug":"2-dead-3-injured-in-2-car-rear-end-crash-on-hwy-401-in-mississauga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/131626\/","title":{"rendered":"2 dead, 3 injured in 2-car rear-end crash on Hwy. 401 in Mississauga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">See more Toronto Sun on Google \u2014<a data-ylk=\"slk:save as a Preferred Source;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=torontosun.com\" class=\"x_x_x_OWAAutoLink\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0save as a Preferred Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Ontario Provincial Police say two people have died following a two-car crash on the eastbound express lane of Hwy. 401 near Dixie Rd. in Mississauga just before 9 a.m. on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Two passenger vehicles were involved in a rear-end collision as traffic was slowing,&#8221; the OPP Highway Safety Division said in a post on social media platform X. &#8220;Two adults were pronounced deceased at the scene. Three others were transported to hospital with injuries.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The deceased have been identified as an 80-year-old male passenger and a 53-year-old female passenger, both from Cambridge, Ont.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The OPP said they were both occupants of the vehicle struck from behind.<\/p>\n<p>Video footage of crash circulating<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A frightening 32-second video, billed as exclusive dashcam footage by @401_da_sarpanch on its X account, shows traffic to the left on the 401 slowing before a dark grey SUV comes barreling along at a high speed and slams loudly into the back of a silver SUV.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The impact sends the silver-coloured SUV spinning across several lanes of traffic while the dark grey SUV comes to a stop facing the car it has just hit with its hazard lights flashing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">As other vehicles pass the collision, they all start honking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Cops said that eastbound express lanes were closed at Mississauga Rd., but were expected to reopen later in the day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Any witnesses are urged to call Mississauga OPP at 905-858-8670.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"See more Toronto Sun on Google \u2014\u00a0save as a Preferred Source Ontario Provincial Police say two people have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[37020,91,10454],"class_list":["post-131626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mississauga","tag-highway-401","tag-mississauga","tag-opp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}