Multiple weekend crashes reported across Niagara region

Over the weekend in the Niagara region, multiple crashes were reported including one early Monday morning on the QEW Fort Erie-bound near the Casablanca Boulevard exit in Grimsby.

A freelancer told CHCH News that emergency crews were dispatched to the area on Sunday at around 11:10 p.m.

Dispatch advised responders that multiple occupants were trapped and one person may be without vital signs.

Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) confirmed that it was a three-vehicle collision.

Officers say six people were transported to hospital, four with minor injuries and two with serious but non-life-threatening injuries.

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Meanwhile in Lincoln shortly after 12 a.m., police say emergency crews were dispatched to a report of a car on fire in a cornfield on Eighth Avenue, east of Victoria Avenue.

Officers say a single motor vehicle lost control, entered the south ditch, hit a culvert and ended up in a cornfield.

Investigators say the driver was a 25-year-old Thorold man who was charged with careless driving.

Crews were able to quickly extinguish the flames and prevent fire from spreading.