Speeding U-Haul truck hits four vehicles, keeps going on Highway 401 in Ontario

A speeding U-Haul moving truck struck four other vehicles on Highway 401 in eastern Ontario this past Friday afternoon before its driver stopped and tried to flee from police on foot.

Ontario Provincial Police said a Cambridge man now faces multiple charges in connection with the crash spree, which unfolded at about 3:30 p.m. in the eastbound lanes of the busy highway near Napanee, some 50 kilometres west of Kingston.

In a news release issued Monday, the Lennox and Addington County detachment of the OPP said they received multiple reports that a U-Haul truck was “driving recklessly at a high rate of speed, eastbound on Highway 401 in Napanee.”

Police in neighbouring municipalities also received calls that the moving truck had struck multiple vehicles along the stretch of highway.

Officers then learned the truck had come to a stop near Highway 15 and Highway 401, in Kingston, where the driver was reported to have left the U-Haul and gotten into a passing vehicle.

Moments later, he jumped from that car and tried to flee on foot near Joyceville Road, east of Kingston, police said.

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Members of various police forces, including a canine unit, were called in to search for the driver.

A short time later, police made an arrest. A 48-year-old Cambridge man is charged with:

• dangerous operation (two counts)
• failure to stop after accident (four counts)
• drive motor vehicle — perform stunt

He was held in custody pending a bail hearing.