{"id":1545,"date":"2017-03-10T22:16:20","date_gmt":"2017-03-11T03:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=1545"},"modified":"2017-03-10T22:41:20","modified_gmt":"2017-03-11T03:41:20","slug":"fatal-collision-closes-highway-17-east-of-nairn-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2017\/03\/10\/fatal-collision-closes-highway-17-east-of-nairn-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"Fatal Collision closes Highway 17 east of Nairn Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mar 10, 2017 @ 22:16<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/OPPCrest.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-101 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/OPPCrest-300x236.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"236\" \/><\/a>On March 10, 2017, at approximately 3:45 p.m. members from the Espanola\/Sudbury Detachments of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), the Nairn-Hyman Fire Department and the Greater Sudbury Fire Department as well as the Sudbury-Manitoulin District Emergency Medical Services (EMS), responded to a two-vehicle collision on Highway 17 east of Nairn Centre.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Preliminary information is that a westbound pick-up truck collided with an eastbound 10-ton truck. The driver of the pick-up truck was pronounced dead at the scene and two other occupants were transported to hospital with serious injuries.\u00a0The driver of the 10-ton truck was also transported to hospital with minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The OPP Technical Collision Investigators (TCI) were called in to assist with the ongoing investigation.\u00a0Further information will be provided as it becomes available.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Editor&#8217;s Note<\/strong> &#8211; at 9:24 p.m. Highway 17 was still closed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-10-at-10.39.41-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1547\" src=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-10-at-10.39.41-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"626\" height=\"153\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-10-at-10.39.41-PM.png 626w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-10-at-10.39.41-PM-300x73.png 300w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-10-at-10.39.41-PM-600x147.png 600w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-10-at-10.39.41-PM-620x153.png 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 626px) 100vw, 626px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mar 10, 2017 @ 22:16 On March 10, 2017, at approximately 3:45 p.m. members from the Espanola\/Sudbury Detachments of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), the Nairn-Hyman Fire Department and the Greater Sudbury Fire Department as well as the Sudbury-Manitoulin District Emergency Medical Services (EMS), responded to a two-vehicle collision on Highway 17 east of Nairn &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,36],"tags":[205],"class_list":["post-1545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-northern-ontario","category-news","tag-nairn-centre"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-16 18:48:43","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\/1545","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=1545"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1549,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545\/revisions\/1549"}],"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=1545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}