First responders provide aid following a crash south of Ottawa on June 23, 2026. (Photo: Claudia Pekary on Facebook)<\/p>\n
A Brampton company says it has fired the driver who was behind the wheel of a transport truck that slammed into the back of a dairy farm tractor near Ottawa a week ago.<\/p>\n
The collision happened south of Ottawa on Mitch Owens Road last Wednesday while a worker at the Ivandale Farm was towing a piece of farming equipment behind a tractor.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s when the driver of a transport truck slammed into the tractor, injuring Craig Waddell, a sixth-generation dairy farmer, husband and father of three, the farm says.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe got off very fortunate\u2026this time. The other 99 (per cent) of the time, this would have been an obituary post,\u201d Waddell\u2019s sister Claudia Pekary wrote in a post that\u2019s been shared on social media.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u201cWe could have lost a husband, a father, a son, a brother and a farmer. It\u2019s deeply important to us now to start to speak up about road safety around agriculture, especially around rural Ottawa.\u201d<\/p>\n
The farm says it shared news of the crash to raise awareness about agricultural equipment road safety \u201cfor the ongoing safety and future generations.\u201d<\/p>\n
Brampton-based Mohanpur Transport has confirmed one of its drivers from Brampton was driving the truck when the crash happened, and says the employee has been fired. The driver has between six to seven years of trucking experience, worked for the company for multiple years and had no prior collisions, the company told INsauga.com.<\/p>\n
The OPP could not be reached for comment.<\/p>\n