Residents across Waterloo region got their first taste of winter weather Thursday morning. But in some Ontario communities, snow didn’t just fall – it stuck around. In Barrie, for example, as much as 10 cm fell, sending cars (and even an OPP cruiser) into ditches. “An OPP cruiser officer was en route responding to [a] collision when the vehicle left the roadway and entered the ditch,” says Alina Grelik with Grey County OPP. In Waterloo region, police were called to several crashes Thursday morning, after wintery conditions caught some drivers by surprise. One of the more serious crashes happened on Fischer Hallman Road, where vehicles in both directions slammed into each other. The crash forced police to close the street in both directions between Glasgow and Victoria Streets.
