{"id":14981,"date":"2018-08-22T17:30:10","date_gmt":"2018-08-22T21:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=14981"},"modified":"2018-08-22T17:30:10","modified_gmt":"2018-08-22T21:30:10","slug":"fatal-collision-east-of-dryden-hwy-17-remains-closed-for-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2018\/08\/22\/fatal-collision-east-of-dryden-hwy-17-remains-closed-for-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Fatal Collision east of Dryden – Hwy 17 Remains closed for Investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"

On August 22, 2018 at approximately 11:10 a.m. officers from the Dryden Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to a two vehicle collision on Highway 17, Southworth Township, approximately 30 km East of Dryden. Dryden Ambulance, Air Ambulance and Wabigoon Volunteer Fire Department attended the scene.<\/p>\n

A passenger in the mini-van was pronounced dead at the scene and the two other occupants in the mini-van are being transported for medical attention of unknown injuries.\u00a0The driver of the SUV is being transported\u00a0to Thunder Bay\u00a0for medical treatment of unknown injuries.<\/p>\n

The identification of the deceased is being withheld pending notification of next of kin.<\/p>\n

The Technical Traffic Collision Investigation (TTCI) unit is attending the scene to conduct their investigation.\u00a0The cause of the collision is still under investigation.<\/p>\n

Highway 17 will be closed for an undetermined period of time while the investigation is conducted.<\/p>\n

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On August 22, 2018 at approximately 11:10 a.m. officers from the Dryden Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to a two vehicle collision on Highway 17, Southworth Township, approximately 30 km East of Dryden. Dryden Ambulance, Air Ambulance and Wabigoon Volunteer Fire Department attended the scene. A passenger in the mini-van was pronounced …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[1650],"class_list":["post-14981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-northern-ontario","tag-dryden-collision"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-19 14:42:29","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\/14981","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14982,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14981\/revisions\/14982"}],"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=14981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}