Following Thursday's shutdown in the eastbound lanes of Hwy. 401, in Lakeshore, the Ontario Provincial Police have charged two drivers.
Around 8:35 a.m., officers responded to reports a tractor-trailer, hauling a large hydraulic dump trailer, had hit an overhead sign between French Line Road and Lakeshore Road 123.
The overhead signs are seven metres above the road.
A second vehicle was damaged when the sign fell, and it was on the highway when officers arrived.
Neither driver was hurt, but the truck driver, a 47-year-old Windsor man, faces a charge of careless driving.
Traffic was slow in the area when police heard about a second crash a kilometre down the road. A second tractor-trailer rear-ended a third.
A driver suffered minor injuries.
In that collision, a 34-year-old Brampton man was charged, also with careless driving.
It took crews five hours to clean up the mess before traffic in the eastbound lanes between Belle River Road and Comber Sideroad reopened Thursday afternoon.
