A 23-year-old woman from Brampton is dead after an early morning collision on Highway 401 in Mississauga on Saturday.
Provincial police say around 4:45 a.m. there was a minor collision involving two vehicles in the westbound collector lanes of Highway 401 just past Dixie Road.
As the two drivers pulled off to the left hand shoulder of the highway, a third vehicle approached in the express lanes and stopped to speak with the drivers involved in the original crash. A fourth vehicle approached in the collector lanes and collided with the pedestrian.
Police say the woman was pronounced dead at the scene while one of the other drivers sustained minor injuries.
“Obviously a very tragic outcome here when you’re standing on the side of the road here dealing with a minor collision and there’s a fatality as a result,” said Sgt. Kerry Schmidt. “We always ask people to get off the highway as quickly as possible to try and prevent the type of tragedy like this from happening.”