BAINSVILLE — An individual is in police custody and the Ontario Special Investigations Unit has been called in following an SDG OPP response to an early morning collision on Highway 401.

Shortly after 4 a.m. Tuesday, OPP East Region communications shared that Fourth Line Road at Concession Road 2 in Bainsville was closed for an active police investigation. It followed that message on social media with other posts at about 4:30 a.m., 6 a.m., and 10 a.m. indicating that Highway 401 was closed in both directions from Lancaster to Line 5 in Bainsville due to a police investigation.

The way the information was posted suggests a relation between the initial Fourth Line Road closure and the Highway 401 closure.

Shortly after 9 a.m., East Region OPP released a statement saying that at about 3:3

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