Truck driver faces multiple charges in Highway 401 crash that killed 4

A 37-year-old transporttruck driver from Quebec faces multiple charges following yesterday's deadly seven-vehicle crash on Highway 401 near Kingston, Ont.

Four people were killed when their car burst into flames afterthe collision.

Theirs was one of seven vehicles involved in the pileup, which sent two people tohospital with serious injuries and involved another car, a commercial vehicle and four transport trucks.

The OPP announced Friday that Dunhill Tabanao, ofVaudreuil-Dorion, Que., will face the following charges:

• Four counts of dangerous operation ofa motor vehicle causing death.
• Two counts of dangerous operation ofa motor vehicle causing bodily harm.

The crash happened at 1:30 a.m. Thursday on the westbound lanes of Highway 401 betweenJoycevilleRoad and Highway 15.

OPP Const. Roop Sandhu saiditappears some of the vehicles involved were either stopped or slowing down for traffic ahead of them when the truck driven by the man now charged began achain-reaction crash.

"It is a very horrific scene," he said.

Tabanao was arrested at the scene and held for bail court at the Ontario Court of Justice in the city of Kingston yesterday.

• 4 dead in 7-vehicle crash on Highway 401 near Kingston

Police are continuing to investigate and say they have not yet identified the four victims.

"We have some concerned relatives that have contacted the OPP," said Sandhu. "We do have an idea of who the four deceased persons are in the vehicle but we're still waiting to get positive identification on them.