Ontario Provincial Police are investigating after one person was killed and four others were taken to hospital following a two-vehicle crash on Highway 401 early Sunday.

It was about 2:30 a.m. on Sunday when officers from the OPP’s Elgin detachment, paramedics and Central Elgin firefighters responded to the crash in the 401’s eastbound lanes at Iona Road in Dutton, located about a 30-minute drive southwest of London.

One person was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries and was later pronounced dead, police said. Four other people were also transported to hospital as a result of the crash, all four of them having suffered injuries that were not considered life-threatening, police said.

Police said the 401’s eastbound lanes were closed between Currie Road and Union Road in Dutt

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