{"id":11641,"date":"2018-04-05T16:05:29","date_gmt":"2018-04-05T20:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=11641"},"modified":"2018-04-05T21:42:38","modified_gmt":"2018-04-06T01:42:38","slug":"hwy-17-closed-near-spragge-collision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2018\/04\/05\/hwy-17-closed-near-spragge-collision\/","title":{"rendered":"Hwy 17 OPEN (near Spragge) after Collision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Apr 5, 2018 @ 16:05<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Shortly after 8:00 a.m., members from the East Algoma Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to a two vehicle motor vehicle collision involving a school bus and a Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV) on Highway 17 near the village of Spragge within the Township of the North Shore.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>At 12:51 p.m., Highway 17 re-opened to two lanes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The investigation is continuing.<\/p>\n<p><b>Apr 5, 2018 @ 12:05<\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div><div class=\"divider\"><\/div>\n<p>Shortly after 8:00 a.m., members from the East Algoma Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to a two vehicle motor vehicle collision involving a school bus and a Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV) on Highway 17 near the village of Spragge within the Township of the North Shore.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the SUV, Marc ROBITAILLE (62) years of age from Spragge, Ontario, was pronounced deceased at the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Seven secondary school students from the bus were transported to local hospital with non-life threatening injuries.\u00a0At 9:54 a.m., Highway 17 re-opened to one lane.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The investigation is continuing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Apr 5, 2018 @ 09:05<\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div><div class=\"divider\"><\/div>\n<p>Members from the East Algoma Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) have responded to a two-vehicle motor vehicle collision involving a school bus and a Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV) on Highway 17 near the village of Spragge within the Township of the North Shore.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Both vehicles were travelling eastbound on Highway 17 where the SUV rear-ended the school bus.\u00a0Students on board the school bus have sustained minor injuries and the male driver of the SUV has been transported to local hospital.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Highway 17 remains closed in both directions at this time and the investigation is continuing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>OPP will advise the public as to when Highway 17 will reopen.\u00a0There are no detours in the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apr 5, 2018 @ 16:05 Shortly after 8:00 a.m., members from the East Algoma Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to a two vehicle motor vehicle collision involving a school bus and a Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV) on Highway 17 near the village of Spragge within the Township of the North Shore. &nbsp; At 12:51 p.m., &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[1368],"class_list":["post-11641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-district","tag-spragge"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-20 12:38:58","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11641"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11655,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11641\/revisions\/11655"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}