VIDEO: Brampton truck driver fired after crash into dairy farm tractor, company confirms

A Brampton company says it has fired the driver who was behind the wheel of a transport truck that slammed into the back of a dairy farm tractor near Ottawa a week ago.

The collision happened south of Ottawa on Mitch Owens Road last Wednesday while a worker at the Ivandale Farm was towing a piece of farming equipment behind a tractor.

That’s when the driver of a transport truck slammed into the tractor, injuring Craig Waddell, a sixth-generation dairy farmer, husband and father of three, the farm says.

“We got off very fortunate…this time. The other 99 (per cent) of the time, this would have been an obituary post,” Waddell’s sister Claudia Pekary wrote in a post that’s been shared on social media.

“We could have lost a husband, a father, a son, a brother and a farmer. It’s deeply important to us now to start to speak up about road safety around agriculture, especially around rural Ottawa.”

The farm says it shared news of the crash to raise awareness about agricultural equipment road safety “for the ongoing safety and future generations.”

Brampton-based Mohanpur Transport has confirmed one of its drivers from Brampton was driving the truck when the crash happened, and says the employee has been fired. The driver has between six to seven years of trucking experience, worked for the company for multiple years and had no prior collisions, the company told INsauga.com.

The OPP could not be reached for comment.