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Two dead, 10 injured in multi-vehicle crash on highway south of Montreal

July 21, 2022 The Canadian Press

BROSSARD, Que. – Quebec provincial police say two people are dead and 10 injured after a multi-vehicle crash Tuesday night on Highway 30, south of Montreal. Police say the driver of a truck allegedly did not slow down when approaching

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Car hits 9 people at Quebec polling station

September 21, 2021 The Canadian Press

MONTREAL – Police say the condition of a 77-year-old woman is uncertain after she was among nine people hit by a car outside a polling station in a Montreal suburb Monday evening. Sgt. Veronique Comtois said today the woman’s injuries

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Up to 70 vehicles: Crash halts traffic on Trans-Canada Highway in southern Alberta

March 29, 2021 The Canadian Press

BROOKS, Alta. – RCMP in Alberta say 50 to 70 vehicles have been involved in a multi-vehicle collision on Highway 1 between Medicine Hat and Calgary this morning. Officers in Brooks say traffic was not expected to flow in the

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Police looking for driver, passengers after vehicle not found at site of reported crash

January 7, 2021 The Canadian Press

NORFOLK COUNTY, Ont. – Ontario Provincial Police are searching for people involved in a reported rollover collision after officers couldn’t find the damaged vehicle. The Norfolk County detachment says a witness reported seeing a pickup truck that had rolled over

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Class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of passengers in fatal Alberta bus crash

August 25, 2020 Bill Graveland -THE CANADIAN PRESS

CALGARY – A class-action lawsuit alleging the defendants acted recklessly and unreasonably has been filed against the operators of a tour bus involved in a fatal rollover at Jasper National Park’s Columbia Icefield. Three people were killed and 14 others

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Can’t hear the ambulance? Turn down your radio

January 17, 2019 by David Gambrill

A B.C. driver has failed in his bid to receive a refund for his insurance premium increase and deductible after B.C.’s public auto insurer found him 100% responsible for failing to clear an intersection for an ambulance. A B.C. ambulance

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Hot coffee scalds your client in a drive-through. Is that an auto “accident”?

February 23, 2018 by Greg Meckbach

Ontario auto insurance policies will have to cover a much wider scope of risk if the Supreme Court of Canada does not overturn a recent court ruling against Aviva Canada, Aviva’s lawyer argues. In Dittmann v. Aviva Insurance Company of Canada,