Enough is enough.
Brian Patterson, president of the Ontario Safety League feels the time has come for coroner's inquest into deadly crashes involving transport trucks.
Patterson planned to commit his request to paper Wednesday after a fiery 14-vehicle crash on Hwy 400, south of Hwy 89 killed at least three people late Tuesday night.
14-vehicle crash, inferno on Hwy 400
The cause of the devastation appears to be a familiar one: driver inattention.
OPP Sgt. Kerry Schmidt believes the driver of a fuel tanker slammed into traffic ahead which had slowed for cleanup of a different crash.
The crash comes six days after OPP commissioner Vince Hawkes slammed careless truck drivers and put the industry 'on notice' that police would pursue every investigative avenue to hold those drivers to account.
By the middle of October, Ontario had seen more than 5,000 crashes involving transport trucks. 67 people were killed in 56 of those crashes.
Brian Patterson is frustrated to see the same questions about driver training, truck engineering and design raised again and again.
"I think the coroner can bring all of those parties to the table in a non-judgemental way to get us a solution to this problem."
While not explicitly asked about the prospect of an inquest, the Premier was asked Wednesday about the safety of Ontario highways.
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"In the aftermath of this collision obviously we will look at what happened, we will be advised on whether there's more that could have been done to prevent such a crash," Kathleen Wynne said.
While the Premier boasted about the relative safety of Ontario highways, she conceded there's always more that could be done.
"Any death on the highway that's preventable should be prevented. And so we will continue to work to make sure that we do everything possible to prevent this kind of tragedy (from) happening again."