In wake of London, Ont.-area crash that killed 5, municipality looking at safety upgrades [Video]

Local councillors are calling for safety improvements at an intersection outside London, Ont., after four high school students and a teacher died following a crash on Friday.

A motion considered at this evening’s Thames Centre council meeting calls on the upper-tier municipalities of Middlesex and Oxford to conduct a traffic and roadway study of the intersection once the ongoing OPP investigation wraps up.

Councillors voted unanimously in favour of the motion.

It was at the intersection, at about 4:30 p.m. ET on Friday, that four high school students — aged 16 to 17 — and their 33-year-old teacher died after the SUV they were riding in collided with a transport truck.

Following the initial collision, the SUV was then struck by a second SUV. Three of the five died at the scene and the two …