In a speech to municipal leaders this week in Sudbury, OPP superintendents affirmed the importance of shutting down highways for bad weather, investigations
There doesn’t seem to be any way around road closures, OPP superintendents Mike Maville and Todd Proulx told Northern Ontario’s municipal leaders this week.
The rationale for closing highways during extreme weather events is fairly straightforward, Maville said, adding that it’s a safety hazard. “If someone has lost a loved one because of something like a homicide or some kind of nefarious activity, you’d expect police to investigate that fully,” he said, adding that the same applies to motor vehicle incidents.
Any collision classified as a “Benchmark Collision” may require police to close a highway in order to preserve evidence for an investigation. These include “anything with a serious personal injury that could be life-altering,” Maville said, and don’t include such things as minor fender-benders.
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