Woman dies in Highway 400 crash in Barrie
Car rolls multiple times after striking a pillar of the Dunlop Street bridge
CBC News
Posted: Jan 16, 2013 6:03 AM ET
Last Updated: Jan 16, 2013 3:42 PM ET
A woman died in this single-vehicle crash on Highway 400 in Barrie early Wednesday morning. (Tony Smyth/CBC)
A woman is dead following a fiery single-vehicle crash on Highway 400 Wednesday morning.
Police say the woman died when her vehicle travelling northbound on Highway 400 hit a support of the Dunlop Street bridge and rolled over multiple times just before 2 a.m.
"The driver was partially ejected, other motorists stopped, pulled the driver out of the vehicle," said OPP Sgt. Dave Woodford. "The vehicle exploded a couple of times."
The driver was pronounced dead in hospital.
As of 6 a.m. Wednesday, the southbound lanes of the highway were open but the northbound lanes were closed from Dunlop to Bayfield for the police investigation.
The northbound lanes were re-opened to traffic just after 8 a.m.
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