Truck driver dead in tractor-trailer crash

UPDATE: The charges againstMiladinko Majstorovicwere withdrawn on March 3, 2021.

A truck driver is dead after a collision involving two tractor-trailers near Brockville, Ont., Thursday evening.

According to a news release from the Leeds Country OPP, officers responded to reports of a disabled transport truck partially blocking five lanes sometime before 6:30 p.m. Thursday.

As an officer approached the truck, a second tractor-trailer struck the disabled vehicle and its driver, who was standing outside the cab.

Police officers tried to save the man's life until paramedics arrived, but Bernard Perreault, 55, was declared dead at the scene. The other driver was uninjured.

Miladinko Majstorovic, 63, from Toronto, was charged with careless driving causing death and is scheduled to appear in court inBrockville at a later date.

OPP spokesperson Sgt. Cynthia Savard said the fatal crash closed the eastbound lane of Highway 401 from the County Road 2 exit to Stewart Boulevard, but the lane was reopened Friday morning.

An investigation is ongoing.