ORILLIA, Ont. — The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) teamed up with the Ministry of Transportation on June 16 for Operation Corridor, a 24-hour enforcement and education initiative aimed at commercial truck drivers to ensure that they drive safely and that their trucks are properly inspected and maintained. Among the truck-related collisions on OPP-patrolled roads between 2011 and 2015, 260 of them resulted in at least one fatality. Many of the crashes involved multiple fatalities, with 321 people having lost their lives, according to figures from the OPP. Of the victims, 281 of them were drivers and passengers in other vehicles involved in the crashes; the other 40 victims were drivers of transport trucks. In other words, for every transport truck driver who gets killed in these collisions over the five-year period, seven other lives are lost. While most of these truck-related incidents were the result of a collision, every year, the OPP investigates road incidents involving tires or other equipment dislodging from transport trucks and flying into the path of other vehicles. In many of these instances, the driver and/or other car occupants are seriously injured or killed. “As our latest data tells us, crashes involving commercial motor vehicles usually result in a higher number of multiple fatalities when compared to collisions involving regular-sized vehicles,” OPP Deputy Commissioner Brad Blair, provincial commander of traffic safety and operational support, said in the statement. “Although our officers see many safe drivers on our roads every day, those who are not need to know just how devastating and costly it can be when they fail to make safe driving decisions or do not undertake proper maintenance and truck inspections.”