Trucker charged after bad crash on Trunk Rd

CITY POLICE

NEWS RELEASE

************************* City Police responded to a single motor vehicle collision involving a transport trailer at 12:50 a.m. that resulted in the driver being sent to hospital by ambulance for treatment of minor injuries.

It is alleged that the 28-year-old male driver of the transport was travelling westbound on Highway 17 East when he failed to slow and to negotiate the right turn onto Trunk Road and continued on across Trunk Road and struck the utility pole on the south side.

The transport continued on into the bush line area and travelled down the embankment.

There were two persons in the transport at the time of the accident.

The 31-year-old male passenger was not injured.

The 28-year-old male driver, Deepinder Dhaliwal of 18 Invitational Road in Brampton, Ontario was charged with one count of careless driving under the Highway Traffic Act.

The transport remains at the scene until daylight when the appropriate equipment can be brought in to safely remove and tow it.

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