TORONTO — Highway 401 between Pickering and Oshawa, Ont. is the most accident-prone stretch of road in the province, according to Ontario Provincial Police documents.

The Toronto Star reports that vehicles traveling between Whites Rd. and Courtice are more likely to be involved in an accident than any other location in Ontario. And the 32-kilometre stretch reportedly has the crashes between 6 a.m. and 9 a.m. or 2 and 7 p.m.

However, one deadliest routes is Highway 48 between Bloomington Rd. and Smith Blvd., in part because the north-south route has only one lane in each direction, forcing drivers to move into the oncoming lane to overtake.
Four people died on the 24.9 km stretch last year.

The eight detachments of the OPP in the Greater Toronto Area have each put together their own list of “hotspot” locations on provincial highways.

The top eight, according to the OPP are as follows:

— Highway 48, between Bloomington Rd. and Smith Blvd.
— Highway 401 between Whites Rd. and Courtice Rd.
— QEW between Burloak Dr. and Winston Churchill Blvd.
— Highway 401 westbound from Keele St. to Highway 400.
— QEW between Mountain Rd. and Niagara St. in Niagara Region.
— Highway 403 between Erin Mills Pkwy. and Mavis Rd.
— Highway 407 between Highway 427 and Pine Valley Dr.
— Highway 401 from Highway 8 to Highway 6.

— with files from the Toronto Star