According to reports, one battery cell was expelled after the collision and needed to be disposed of carefully in a container packed with sand to avoid reignition.
Although Toronto Fire has been revising its procedures to tackle these issues, the intricacies of emergency response also change as technology advances.
This tragedy serves as a sobering reminder of how vital it is to strike a balance between innovation and workable safety precautions in order to avert future tragedies of this kind.
The collision happened on Lake Shore Boulevard East, which has long been known as one of Toronto’s most dangerous thoroughfares.
It is a collision hotspot due to the mix of heavy traffic, continuous construction, and intricate road designs. The catastrophe on Thursday is the latest in a string of deadly events in the region.
On the same stretch earlier this year, a motorist who was eighteen years old lost control of their Jeep and fell into the neighboring Keating Channel.
