Man in critical condition after medical episode results in collision

Traffic piled up on Hunt Club and Merivale roads after a crash prompted closures. (City of Ottawa traffic camera)

By Natasha O'Neill

Posted Oct 17, 2025 11:32:50 AM.

Last Updated Oct 17, 2025 03:40:27 PM.

An elderly man is in critical condition after suffering cardiac arrest while driving, prompting the partial closure of a major Ottawa throughway on Friday morning.

Paramedics told CityNews in an email that they were called around 10:40 a.m. to the intersection of West Hunt Club Road and Sunderland Street for a crash. Once there, they found a man suffering from cardiac arrest who was driving at the time of the episode, causing a “low-speed collision.”

First responders on scene initiated resuscitation using a defibrillator until paramedics took over during transport to the hospital. The man was in critical condition.

Ottawa police closed a stretch of West Hunt Club Road after the incident.

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