Officials in Toronto and the Peel region said a motorcyclist died and a second motorcyclist is in the hospital in critical condition after separate crashes within minutes of each other on Monday.
The first motorcycle-vehicle collision occurred on Lake Shore Boulevard West near British Columbia Road, south of the Gardiner Expressway and the OVO Athletic Center, around 5:45 p.m.
An update posted on the Toronto Police Service Twitter account said the motorcyclist was rushed to a hospital by paramedics with a police escort with life-threatening injuries.
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Just before 6 p.m. at the intersection of Westbrook Avenue and Cottrelle Boulevard, west of The Gore Road in Brampton, an update on the Twitter account of the Peel Regional Police Service said there was a collision between a motorcycle and a car. .
Peel’s paramedics rushed the motorcyclist to a hospital, police said, but the patient later died.
Officers in Toronto and Brampton closed the immediate areas near the crash sites when collision reconstruction investigators were called in to investigate the circumstances that led to the crashes.
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