{"id":14997,"date":"2018-08-23T10:02:07","date_gmt":"2018-08-23T14:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=14997"},"modified":"2018-08-23T12:22:32","modified_gmt":"2018-08-23T16:22:32","slug":"fatal-collision-between-south-african-cyclist-and-car-closes-hwy-17-for-9-5-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2018\/08\/23\/fatal-collision-between-south-african-cyclist-and-car-closes-hwy-17-for-9-5-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"Fatal Collision between South African Cyclist and Car Closes Hwy 17 for 9.5 hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday August 22, 2018, shortly after 8:00 p.m., members from the East Algoma Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Thessalon Detachment, the OPP Technical Collision Investigation (TCI) team and with the assistance of Algoma Paramedic Services responded to a motor vehicle collision involving a car and a bicycle on Highway 17, west of Dayton Road in the Municipality of Huron Shores.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Investigation determined that a female cyclist was westbound on Highway 17 when she was struck from the rear by a westbound car.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Amy Jaye WILLSON, 31 years of age from South Africa was pronounced deceased at the scene.\u00a0Post mortem to be conducted with a date to be determined.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Highway 17 re-opened at 5:33 a.m. on Thursday August 23, 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday August 22, 2018, shortly after 8:00 p.m., members from the East Algoma Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Thessalon Detachment, the OPP Technical Collision Investigation (TCI) team and with the assistance of Algoma Paramedic Services responded to a motor vehicle collision involving a car and a bicycle on Highway 17, west of Dayton Road in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-northern-ontario"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-05 04:55:59","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\/14997","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=14997"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15009,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14997\/revisions\/15009"}],"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=14997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}