{"id":330804,"date":"2025-12-07T18:27:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T18:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/330804\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T18:27:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T18:27:08","slug":"fatal-crash-shuts-hwy-400-nb-at-major-mackenzie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/330804\/","title":{"rendered":"Fatal crash shuts Hwy 400 NB at Major Mackenzie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Updated:\u00a0December 07, 2025 at 12:09PM EST<\/p>\n<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Published:\u00a0December 07, 2025 at 6:33AM EST<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">All northbound lanes of Highway 400 have reopened after a fatal collision near Major Mackenzie Drive that left two men dead and another critically injured, Ontario Provincial Police say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The crash, occurring sometime at around 3:45 a.m., involved a passenger vehicle and a transport truck as the vehicles were approaching Teston Road. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Emergency crews responded early Sunday morning, temporarily shutting down the northbound lanes for several hours to investigate.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/M2TDU7E7WBHXNNQQZMAUQQ5QFQ.png\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/>OPP OPP officials investigating after all northbound lanes of Highway 400 at Major Mackenzie Drive were closed following a fatal two-vehicle collision on Sunday December 7, 2025 (CP24 photo). <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">OPP say three people were inside the car. The driver, a 50-year-old man from Toronto, was taken to hospital, where he remains in critical condition. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police say two rear passengers \u2014 both 30-year-old men from Bradford were pronounced dead at the scene. The truck driver was not injured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It\u2019s unclear what led up to the crash but OPP Sgt. Kerry Schmidt suggests road conditions are not believed to be a factor at this time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The highway reopened around noon after collision reconstruction officers completed their work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Anyone with information or dashcam footage is asked to contact Aurora OPP at 905-841-5777.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">UPDATE (11:40 a.m.): Highway 400 has fully re-opened. Thank you for your patience and cooperation. ^pia<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 OPP GTA Traffic (@OPP_GTATraffic) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OPP_GTATraffic\/status\/1997707927180947905?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">December 7, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated:\u00a0December 07, 2025 at 12:09PM EST Published:\u00a0December 07, 2025 at 6:33AM EST All northbound lanes of Highway 400&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330805,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[712,49,48,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-330804","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}