'All of a sudden I started smelling smoke': Woman recounts escaping from burning vehicle on Hwy. 401

A 32-year-old Hamilton woman says she is lucky to be alive after her car randomly caught fire while she was driving on Highway 401 last weekend.

“Everything was fine and I had just come off the off-ramp but then… I heard someone honk at me,” she recalled in an interview with CTV News Toronto on Monday.The mother of three said she initially thought they honked because she was driving too slowly and she proceeded to move over to the slow lane. “I didn’t want to go through the driver’s side because there were so many vehicles that were going high speeds so I thought I’d get out of the passenger’s .”

After speaking to witnesses, Kerri-Mitchell said she later learned that her car was on fire while she was on the ramp. If November’s cool, dreary and rainy weather has you dreaming of turquoise-blue water and white sand beaches, then you might just be in luck.A window washer experienced a medical emergency while on a suspended scaffolding outside the seventh floor window of a London high-rise Monday morning.As Remembrance Day approaches, the needs of local veterans are being met through poppy donations. But not all of those who need help are reachable.

A low-pressure system is expected to cross over the Great Lakes mid-week, bringing snow, freezing rain and ice pellets to northern Ontario.It took fire crews 60,000 gallons of water to put out a fire that ignited in the back of a garbage truck late Monday morning as it travelled on Horseshoe Valley Road in Springwater Township.Man wanted for hitting pedestrian with car arrested: Truro police

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