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Highway 401 Accidents Today — Live Corridor Watch

Quick answer: 3 news reports naming the Highway 401 in the last 24 hours, 12 in the last 7 days; 0 official live incidents on or near the road right now; 8 geocoded reports within 15 km. The Highway 401 is the 828-km Macdonald–Cartier Freeway, the busiest highway in North America through Toronto.

Reports naming the Highway 401

last 24 hours

Last 7 days

headline mentions

Official incidents now

within 15 km of the road

828

Kilometres

7 waypoints · Windsor → Cornwall

— zones in view

Highway 401 corridor Accident report · last 24h Official traffic incident Toggle CAMERAS on the map for live views

Headlines

Latest reports naming the Highway 401

News items from the last 7 days whose headline names the road, country-matched. Every item links to the publisher.

road Bus rollover on Hwy 401 sends five to hospital - CK News Today cknewstoday.ca · 9 hr ago

road 10 adults sent to hospital after school bus rollover on Highway 401 ramp in Chatham-Kent - CTV News www.ctvnews.ca · 14 hr ago

road Highway 401 reopens after transport truck incident - CTV News www.ctvnews.ca · 16 hr ago

road Collision Causes Delays on Highway 401 - 104.7 Heart FM www.heartfm.ca · 2 days ago

road Impaired Driver Crashes On The 401 - windsoriteDOTca News windsorite.ca · 3 days ago

road Petrolia man charged in Hwy.401 crash - Sarnia News Today sarnianewstoday.ca · 3 days ago

road Petrolia man charged after Hwy. 401 crash in Tecumseh - CTV News www.ctvnews.ca · 3 days ago

road ‘This truck is just mangled!’: Full closure on eastbound Hwy. 401 after collision - CTV News www.ctvnews.ca · 3 days ago

road Closure: Transport truck crash closes Highway 401 lanes in Toronto - INsauga www.insauga.com · 3 days ago

road Collision closes EB Hwy. 401 express lanes in Scarborough - CTV News www.ctvnews.ca · 3 days ago

road EB Hwy. 401 express lanes reopen in Scarborough after crash - CTV News www.ctvnews.ca · 3 days ago

road Windsor driver charged after multiple traffic complaints on Highway 401 - CTV News www.ctvnews.ca · 6 days ago

Official feeds

Live incidents on or near the Highway 401 right now

Transport-authority and traffic-data incidents within 15 km of the centreline, nearest first.

No official live incident inside the Highway 401 corridor at the moment. Feeds are re-read every 15 minutes.

Geocoded

Accident reports placed within 15 km of the Highway 401 (24 h)

City-level placements from the live feed — the dot marks the city named in the headline, not the exact carriageway.

Toronto · 6 km Two elderly people critically injured in multi-vehicle crash in Scarborough - CityNews Toronto 3 hr ago

Brampton · 11.1 km Driver seriously injured in Brampton collision - CP24 11 hr ago

Annex · 2.8 km Woman arrested for impaired driving after crash damages Annex diner - TorontoToday.ca 13 hr ago

Windsor · 1.8 km OPP looking for stolen vehicle used in Kingsville hit-and-run - Windsor News Today 15 hr ago

Toronto · 6 km Woman arrested for impaired driving after multi-vehicle crash in Toronto - CP24 18 hr ago

Toronto · 6 km Toronto police investigating motorcycle crash in Etobicoke - CTV News 18 hr ago

Etobicoke · 3.1 km Man in his 30s hospitalized after motorcycle crash in Etobicoke - CP24 18 hr ago

Brampton · 11.1 km Two women injured in four-vehicle collision in Brampton - CTV News 18 hr ago

Official DOT feeds · live snapshots

Live traffic cameras along the Highway 401

Public traffic-camera snapshots nearest to the latest geocoded reports on this page, straight from the transport authority. Images refresh on their own schedule (seconds to minutes); a camera is picked by distance and is not necessarily pointed at the incident.

Traffic camera: City of Windsor – Goyeau Street and Elliot Street — **City of Windsor – Goyeau Street and Elliot Street**Ontario 511 · 0.6 km from: Windsor

Traffic camera: Highway 401 at Wellington Road South — **Highway 401 at Wellington Road South**Ontario 511 · 7.1 km from: London

Traffic camera: Highway 7/8 at Homer Watson Boulevard — **Highway 7/8 at Homer Watson Boulevard**Ontario 511 · 2.5 km from: Kitchener

Traffic camera: BAY ST & ADELAIDE ST W — **BAY ST & ADELAIDE ST W**City of Toronto RESCU cameras · 0.1 km from: Toronto

Traffic camera: Highway 401 near Thickson Road — **Highway 401 near Thickson Road**Ontario 511 · 4.8 km from: Oshawa

Traffic camera: Wolfe Island Ferry – Ontario Street — **Wolfe Island Ferry – Ontario Street**Ontario 511 · 1.0 km from: Kingston

Traffic camera: Highway 401 near Highway 138 — **Highway 401 near Highway 138**Ontario 511 · 5.1 km from: Cornwall

Traffic camera: QUEEN ST E & WOODBINE AVE — **QUEEN ST E & WOODBINE AVE**City of Toronto RESCU cameras · 11 km from centre

Camera data: Ontario 511 (Ministry of Transportation, Open Government Licence – Ontario) (all 945 cameras) · City of Toronto Open Data (Open Government Licence – Toronto) (all 336 cameras). Snapshots are served by the authority and are not stored by this site. Cameras marked Live video play inline; the rest are still images refreshed by the authority.

Questions

Highway 401 — FAQ

Is there an accident on the Highway 401 today?

Yes — 3 news reports naming the Highway 401 reached our feeds in the last 24 hours (listed below with source and time). Official live incidents inside the corridor are shown separately when a transport authority publishes them.

Where does this Highway 401 page get its data?

Three places, none of them estimated: (1) news headlines from GDELT, Google News RSS and GNews that name the road, country-matched so the British M1 and the Pakistani M-1 are never mixed up; (2) official incident feeds already on this site (511 systems, state DOT ArcGIS layers, city feeds, MapQuest) filtered to points within 15 km of the road's centreline; (3) the live traffic-camera index for cameras nearest to each waypoint.

How is 'near the Highway 401' defined?

The road is stored as 7 waypoints (Windsor, London, Kitchener, Toronto…). A report or incident counts as on the corridor when it lies within 15 km of the line between those waypoints. City-level geocoded reports are approximate by nature — they mark the city, not the exact carriageway.

What should I do if I am in a crash on the Highway 401?

Get to a safe place away from live lanes if you can, call 911, and give the direction, junction or mile marker. Do not stand between vehicles or on the hard shoulder longer than necessary. This page is informational and updates every 15 minutes; it is not an emergency service.

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