For five days, it looked like something left over from the apocalypse or a Terminator movie!
This burned-out van had many living in an Erin Mills Pkwy.-Hwy. 403 area neighbourhood scratching their heads. What happened here?
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But when daybreak came Sunday, the mystery van of Mississauga was gone.
The van on the side of the road on Folkway Dr., south of Glen Erin Dr., had the neighbourhood stumped. As Peel Regional Police and Mississauga Fire were looking into the matter, Mississauga bylaw officers gave the van a parking ticket.
It was, after all, parked illegally.
While it looked like something from a movie scene, this was no prop. Upon closer look, there was plenty of shattered glass and other debris on the road.
“There was a loud bang there overnight,” said a neighbour. “There was actually a car behind it that was ablaze, and it went into the van.”
A car was also on the side of the road for several days before being removed.
The burned vehicles are finally gone but the curiosity of what happened lingers. As police investigate, the mystery of this charred destruction remains unsolved.