Ditch Recovery / Ditch Pullout Ottawa

Ditch recovery in Ottawa happens year-round but the calls spike hard from November through March. Black ice on Mitch Owens Road. Whiteout conditions on Highway 31. A missed curve on Carp Road at night. One wrong moment and your vehicle is sitting in a ditch with two wheels on grass and no way to drive out. Ontario Towing uses heavy-duty winching to pull your vehicle back onto the road without making the damage worse.

Why you should not try to drive out of a ditch

Your first instinct when you end up in a ditch is to floor the gas and try to power out. That almost always makes it worse. The wheels dig into soft ground, the car slides deeper, and sometimes the vehicle tips further into the ditch. If there is any body or suspension damage from going in, driving out can turn a minor incident into a serious one. Broken tie rods, bent control arms, and cracked oil pans are common results of forcing a vehicle out of a ditch.

Ottawa's worst ditch roads

Our drivers know the repeat offenders. Limebank Road south of Barrhaven is a straight, flat road that ices over unpredictably. Fallowfield Road near Stittsville has sharp curves with no guardrails. March Road heading into Kanata has aggressive wind exposure that causes drifting snow across the lanes. Highway 174 east of Orleans narrows and the shoulder drops off sharply into deep drainage ditches. We respond to these roads weekly during winter.