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CTV News
3 days ago
- CTV News
More rock-throwing incidents from highway overpasses reported in Niagara Region: OPP
OPP appeal for witnesses in connection with multiple rock-throwing incidents off highways near St. Catharines. (OPP) Ontario Provincial Police are investigating another incident of rock-throwing from highway overpasses in Niagara Region. In a video posted to social media, OPP Sgt. Kerry Schmidt said the latest occurrence happened at 7 a.m. on Thursday along the QEW near Mountain and Montrose roads in Niagara Falls. Schmidt said a witness reported seeing two or three individuals throwing stones from a railway overpass. Their vehicle was damaged as a result, but no injuries were reported, he said. 'This is certainly a very serious matter that could result in serious injuries or even fatalities, depending on what comes through someone's windshield as they're going down the highway, completely unaware that someone's causing mischief from above,' Schmidt said. Another incident of rock throwing. July 17, 2025, 7am. Damage to a vehicle, witnesses reported seeing three individuals on the rail bridge near #QEW/Mountain Rd. Niagara Falls. If you have information and can assist #NiagaraOPP investigators, please call 905-356-1311 or report… — OPP Highway Safety Division (@OPP_HSD) July 17, 2025 The latest incident comes after OPP reported that rocks were thrown in the QEW and Mountain Road area earlier this month, as well as from highway overpasses along the 406 in St. Catharines and Highway 58 near Pine and Richmond streets in Thorold. Police are asking for anyone with information, including dashcam videos, to contact Niagara OPP at 905-356-1311 or Crime Stoppers anonymously. Earlier this month, the OPP laid charges against two youths in connection with separate highway rock-throwing incidents in Markham. One of those incidents caused a driver to lose consciousness and resulted in a serious collision that left two people with life-threatening injuries, while another shattered the windshield of an occupied GO bus on Hwy. 48.
CTV News
6 days ago
- CTV News
Police appeal for witnesses in connection with multiple highway rock-throwing incidents in St. Catharines
OPP appeal for witnesses in connection with multiple rock-throwing incidents off highways near St. Catharines. (OPP) Ontario Provincial Police are searching for witnesses in connection with multiple rock-throwing incidents that caused damage to multiple vehicles in St. Catharines. The incidents were reported on Hwy. 406, Queen Elizabeth Way (QEW) near Mountain Street, and Hwy. 50 and Pine Street, OPP Sgt. Kerry Schmidt said in a video posted on X. 'If you are the perpetrator involved in this, turn yourself in and contact a lawyer and report into the Niagara OPP detachment,' Schmidt said in the video that also shows the damage the vehicles sustained. 'It is dangerous and it needs to stop.' Schmidt did not specify when the rock-throwing incidents happened. Police are asking for anyone with information, including dashcam videos, to contact them or Crime Stoppers anonymously. This comes after the OPP laid charges against two youths in connection with similar highway rock-throwing incidents in Markham, that led to a serious collision leaving two people with life-threatening injuries, earlier this month. Similarly, a rock shattered the windshield of an occupied GO bus on Hwy. 48, in another incident.
CTV News
09-07-2025
- CTV News
Two vehicles hit by rocks thrown on Hwy 35, one person injured: OPP
A vehicle's shattered windshield is pictured after police say a rock was thrown at it on Highway 35 in Pontypool, Ont., on Sun., July 6, 2025. One person was injured after a disturbing incident on Highway 35 in the City of Kawartha Lakes that prompted a police investigation. According to Kawartha Lakes OPP, two separate vehicles travelling on the highway were struck by rocks on Sunday in the vicinity of Waites Road in Pontypool, a community in the southern most part of the city. Police say a passenger in the second vehicle suffered facial injuries above their eye after a rock crashed through the windshield. No one was reported injured in the first incident. 'Incidents of this nature are taken seriously,' provincial police stated in a social media post. The OPP emphasized how dangerous this type of reckless behaviour can be. 'The injury could have been much worse,' the service noted. Police urge anyone with information, including dash camera footage, to contact the OPP at 1-888-310-1122 with reference #E250887414 or Crime Stoppers to remain anonymous.
CTV News
05-07-2025
- CTV News
Two men charged in rock throwing incident that led to crash in Markham
Two men charged in rock throwing incident that led to crash in Markham Two men have been charged in connection to a rock throwing incident that resulted in a serious collision leading to life-threatening injuries in Markham.
Yahoo
04-07-2025
- Yahoo
2 teen boys arrested in Markham rock-throwing incidents: OPP
Two teenage boys have been arrested in connection with rock-throwing incidents last fall, the Ontario Provincial Police says. Over a two-month stretch between September and November, the OPP said there were multiple instances in which rocks were reportedly thrown deliberately at moving vehicles. From Sept. 20 to Nov. 12 alone, the OPP said its Aurora detachment had received 11 reports of rocks intentionally thrown at vehicles travelling along Highway 48. Two people suffered life-threatening injuries as a result of one instance, police said in a news release, while nobody was injured in the other incident. Two 18-year-old boys, one from Markham and the other from Richmond Hill, were arrested on Wednesday, police said in a release. The pair have been charged with aggravated assault, mischief endangering life and mischief damage to property. Police are not identifying either person as they were both youths at the time of the incidents. They are expected to appear in court in Richmond Hill at a later date. Earlier this year, in an unconnected case, two teen boys were also arrested and charged in connection with rocks being thrown at vehicles in the Markham and Whitchurch-Stouffville areas. One person sustained minor injuries. In that case, York Regional Police said in January it had charged an 18-year-old and a 17-year-old with mischief under $5,000.
