SIX-VEHICLE PILE-UP AS DRIVERS MISS RIGHT CORNER AND PILING UP ON BAY STREEET MONDAY IN FIRST SNOWFALL

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com

GRAVENHURST — A first light snowfall in south Muskoka today saw a six-vehicle pile-up as they slid through a slippery intersection intersection with no injuries.

Emergency services were called to near the bottom of Bay Street at Wanda Miller Road and Clairmont Drive about 11 a.m. Monday for the rear-end collisions.

The vehicles came dangerously close to the front door of a home on Bay Street at Wanda Miller Road and Clairmont Drive. Photos Mark Clairmont MuskokaTODAY.com

Two cars, two vans, a pick-up truck and a large SUV missed the right turn plowing into each other and dangerously spilling just on to the curb’s edge and into the frond yard of a home at the corner 25 feet from its front door.

The half-dozen vehicles suffer minimal damage with drivers able to free themselves as paramedics were on hand, police blocked streets and Gravenhurst firefighters were left to tend to traffic back-up of transports stuck coming up from Lake Muskoka.

One car did have it’s driver’s side door almost torn off.

The intersection is just one block west of a traffic light signal at Sarah Street.

A Town of Gravenhurst works truck was shortly after seen spreading sand down Bay Street west from Greavette Street.

The SUV, pick-up truck and two cars shield a pair of vans behind them in the accident about 11 a.m. this morning.
Damage was reserved mostly to bumpers, though a back window on a van was damaged.

The road had just been completely paved in the past couple of weeks after extensive underground water, sewer and ground water pipe replacements.

The road remained closed through the noon hour as people were reminded to change their snow tires.

And traffic was agrain re-routed onto Brown Street.

The accidents occurred two weeks before last year’s massive week-long storm the final day of November when the bottom section of Bay was at last paved.

With a driver’s side door almost off, emergency services were on hand immediatly dealing with drivers, traffic and getting their own first taste of winter.
A tow truck driver straightens the wheel on a small black car.
Two drivers involved, left, watch as emergency crews deal with the afternath. Both said they were not injured.
The intersection, which has just weeks before been paved as part of the Bay & Beyond road repairs has a full stop and is only a block west of a traffic light signal.

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