Ontario Provincial Police are warning motorists to stay off the roads unless absolutely necessary due to a savage ice storm that slammed southern Ontario with ice pellets and freezing rain on Sunday, knocking off power to over 40,000 people.
Provincial police said there were roughly 750 crashes on highways surrounding Toronto on Saturday, and there had been nearly 700 more by early Sunday afternoon.
“We would prefer the highways to be empty and are encouraging all non-essential travel to be postponed,” said Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Sgt. Kerry Schmidt in an update Sunday morning.
