DRYDEN — A truck driver has been charged with dangerous driving causing bodily harm in connection with a fiery collision Tuesday on Highway 17.
OPP said a tractor-trailer went out of control, rolled over and caught fire shortly after 10 a.m., forcing an extended closure of a section of the highway in the Dryden area.
Both occupants of the unit were taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
The fire sent a thick plume of black smoke into the air, and it took almost three hours to reopen the stretch of road between Highway 594 and Leach Road.
The 38-year-old driver of the vehicle, a resident of Guelph, is scheduled to appear in court in Dryden on Aug. 25.
It is Newswatch policy not to name people facing criminal accusations when we are unlikely to follow the case to its conclusion in the courts.
