Crashes near Port Hope, Ontario kill one man, a family pet and close major highway [Video]

Northumberland OPP were kept busy with separate collisions on Thursday with a multi-vehicle crash on Highway 401 between Cobourg and Port Hope claiming the life of one man while a three-car collision on nearby County Road 28 sent three people to hospital and left a family pet dead.

Police responded to a collision on County Road 18 in Port Hope at 9:40 a.m., with officers and emergency officials arriving to find two vehicles with heavy damage and a third in the ditch on the west side of the road.

Three occupants were treated by EMS and transported to a local hospital with non life-threatening injuries. A family pet did not survive the accident.

The road was closed at County Road 9 and Boundary Road until midday for the investigation and clean-up crews, with emergency crews immediately dispatched to the collision on Highway 401 west of Burham Street involving as many …