Major winter storm creates travel nightmare across the region

January 8, 2026 @ 7:39 amListowel Banner, News, Walkerton Herald-Times, Walkerton-Wingham-Listowel, Wingham Advance Times

Drifting snow and an accumulation of ice played a major factor on roads on Dec. 19. Treacherous road conditions had drivers slowing to a crawl along Line 86 in the late afternoon when a tractor trailer travelling westbound towards Listowel from Dorking crossed the eastbound lane and jackknifed into the ditch, missing oncoming traffic. The driver was unharmed. A large tow truck and three police cars reached the scene to safely retrieve the rig and tend to traffic, which was backed up both ways. (Owen Bylsma photo)
Drifting snow and an accumulation of ice played a major factor on roads on Dec. 19. Treacherous road conditions had drivers slowing to a crawl along Line 86 in the late afternoon when a tractor trailer travelling westbound towards Listowel from Dorking crossed the eastbound lane and jackknifed into the ditch, missing oncoming traffic. The driver was unharmed. A large tow truck and three police cars reached the scene to safely retrieve the rig and tend to traffic, which was backed up both ways. (Owen Bylsma photo)

PERTH COUNTY – It was a white, but not whiteout, Christmas around midwestern Ontario, but fierce snow and ice storms the following week made travel hazardous, and sometimes impossible, for several days throughout the region. The storm that began on Dec. 28  kept Highway 23, a vital artery through the region mostly closed until Jan.…

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