{"id":14652,"date":"2018-08-10T08:44:31","date_gmt":"2018-08-10T12:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=14652"},"modified":"2018-08-10T08:44:31","modified_gmt":"2018-08-10T12:44:31","slug":"civic-day-long-weekend-was-tragic-with-six-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2018\/08\/10\/civic-day-long-weekend-was-tragic-with-six-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"Civic Day Long Weekend was tragic with six deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) dealt with a tragic Civic Day Long Weekend with two children among the <strong>six<\/strong> people who died on OPP-patrolled roads.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The weekend marked the highest number of fatal road incidents since the 2011 August long weekend.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0A<strong> three-year-old girl<\/strong> died after being struck by a pick-up truck in Lambton County.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0A<strong> six-year-old girl<\/strong> was killed after the passenger vehicle in which she was travelling was involved in a collision with a transport truck in Caledon.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0A<strong> 22-year-old man<\/strong> died following a collision between his motorcycle and a passenger vehicle on Highway 427 in southern Ontario.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0A second motorcyclist, a<strong> 52-year-old man<\/strong> was killed when the motorcycle he was driving lost control near Killaloe.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0A<strong> 28-year-old man<\/strong> succumbed to his injuries following a single vehicle crash on the shoulder of Highway 400 in Tay Township.<\/li>\n<li>A <strong>64-year-old man<\/strong> died in southern Ontario after driving the wrong way (southbound) on Highway 404 resulted in a head-on collision with a northbound vehicle. The driver of the northbound vehicle received serious injuries in the crash.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>With its data now finalized, the OPP laid 511 Move Over charges during its four-day Move Over campaign. There were 413 charges during the 2017 campaign and 471 charges the previous year (2016).<\/p>\n<p>The OPP laid 8,566 traffic-related charges over the weekend. A total of 5,070 charges were for speeding, with officers laying an additional 136 street racing\/stunt driving charges against motorists who were caught driving more than 50 kilometres per hour over the posted speed limit.<\/p>\n<p>By comparison, the 2017 Civic Day Long Weekend resulted in 8,781 charges, 5,558 of which were speeding offences and 127 of which were street racing\/stunt driving offences. The 2016 campaign ended with 9,417 charges. Speeding accounted for 5,529 of the charges and 99 charges were laid for street racing\/stunt driving offences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) dealt with a tragic Civic Day Long Weekend with two children among the six people who died on OPP-patrolled roads. &nbsp; The weekend marked the highest number of fatal road incidents since the 2011 August long weekend. \u00a0A three-year-old girl died after being struck by a pick-up truck in Lambton &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[1628],"class_list":["post-14652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-provincial","tag-civic-day-long-weekend"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-20 17:12:52","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\/14652","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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14653,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14652\/revisions\/14653"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}