A section of Lake Shore Blvd. is closed at Yonge St. after a piece of concrete fell onto a car this morning from the Gardiner Expressway.
“It was like a bullet, an explosion. I felt scared.” said John Pandell, the car’s driver. “It really startled me, so I just pulled over.”
Pandell had just driven down the ramp from the Gardiner to Lake Shore at Yonge St. when the concrete hit the top of his black two-door Mercedes around 10:30 a.m.
He was not injured.
The Mercedes sustained a small dent to the windshield on the driver’s side and another near the trunk.
Pandell, a lawyer, said he is concerned for drivers in convertibles and people crossing Lake Shore.
Three lanes of the roadway are closed to traffic as workers drill and chip away at other parts of the Gardiner from which more concrete could fall.
“The area has been blocked off and now it’s up to the city,” said Toronto police Const. Tony Vella.
There have been a number of cases of falling concrete under the Gardiner this year.
Today’s incident was the first in which a vehicle was damaged.
https://www.thestar.com/news/articl...mercedes-at-yonge-st-and-lake-shore-blvd?bn=1
“It was like a bullet, an explosion. I felt scared.” said John Pandell, the car’s driver. “It really startled me, so I just pulled over.”
Pandell had just driven down the ramp from the Gardiner to Lake Shore at Yonge St. when the concrete hit the top of his black two-door Mercedes around 10:30 a.m.
He was not injured.
The Mercedes sustained a small dent to the windshield on the driver’s side and another near the trunk.
Pandell, a lawyer, said he is concerned for drivers in convertibles and people crossing Lake Shore.
Three lanes of the roadway are closed to traffic as workers drill and chip away at other parts of the Gardiner from which more concrete could fall.
“The area has been blocked off and now it’s up to the city,” said Toronto police Const. Tony Vella.
There have been a number of cases of falling concrete under the Gardiner this year.
Today’s incident was the first in which a vehicle was damaged.
https://www.thestar.com/news/articl...mercedes-at-yonge-st-and-lake-shore-blvd?bn=1
