So I’m not going flying (edited) this morning, it’s too windy 
Ah well, at least I got one flight in.
Through a link to my site, I discovered why the QEW was closed on Saturday morning. Directly from the Hamilton Spectator, mistakes* and all:
Saturday, May 19, 2007 | Updated at 5:58 PM EDT
QEW car accident leaves two seriuosly injured
By Dana BrownNiagara-bound traffic was snagged for hours this morning after a two-vehicle collision at the QEW and Fruitland Road.
OPP said the crash happened around 4:15 a.m. Two people were trapped, but were rescued and police closed a chunk of the highway as they investigated the crash.
One of the cars rolled over, OPP said.
Four hours after the crash a tan-coloured car remained on the Fruitland on-ramp, flipped on it’s roof. The driver side of the car appeared to be partially crushed.
OPP said two people suffered serious injuries, but had no word about the extent of those injuries.
As the morning got moving, traffic starting thickening on the service road as people tried to avoid the mess. Some highway drivers already headed for the kilometres-long back up actually to turn around and drive the wrong on the road to steer clear of the scene.
The highway was reopened around 11 a.m., but the ramp stayed closed for some time after that.
* People of Hamilton! Don’t accept this standard from your newspeople! Errant apostrophes, headline with spelling errors, whole words missing… this article was an affront to my internal spellchecker!
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