A construction worker has been critically injured following a collision on Highway 403 in Burlington, Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) say.
According to the OPP, the collision happened just after 4 a.m. on Friday in the eastbound lanes at Waterdown Road, and involved a construction vehicle.
Const. Timothy Dunnah told CBC News that a construction company was carrying out work on the highway when the collision occurred.
One of the company’s workers “was on a piece of equipment … when a motor vehicle entered the construction zone and struck that piece of equipment,” Dunnah said.
The worker was taken to a Hamilton hospital with life-threatening injuries.
The driver of the vehicle sustained minor injuries.
All eastbound lanes of the highway were closed as police investigated.