On August 19, 2019, at approximately 6:05 p.m., officers from the Thunder Bay and Nipigon Detachments of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), Shuniah Fire and Emergency Services and Superior North Emergency Medical Service (EMS) responded to a multi-vehicle collision on Highway 11\/17 near Pearl Road 5, in the Municipality of Shuniah.<\/p>\n
Preliminary investigation revealed that an eastbound Sport Utility Vehicle (SUV) attempted to make a left turn into a rest stop located along Highway 11\/17, when it was struck from behind by a tractor-trailer unit (TTU). The SUV then collided with a westbound pick-up truck.<\/p>\n
The two occupants from the SUV were pronounced deceased at the scene. The identification of the two occupants\u00a0is being withheld pending next of kin notification.<\/p>\n
The four occupants of the pick-up truck were transported to hospital by ambulance with non-life threatening injuries. The driver of the TTU was not injured.<\/p>\n
OPP Technical Collision Investigators (TCI) attended the scene to assist with the investigation. Highway 11\/17 was closed for approximately 8 hours while the investigation was conducted.<\/p>\n
The investigation is continuing.<\/p>\n
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Aug 19, 2019 @ 21:22<\/b>\u00a0– On August 19, 2019 at approximately 6:05 pm officers from the Thunder Bay and Nipigon Detachments of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to a multi vehicle collision on Highway 11\/17, near Pearl, ON (East of Thunder Bay).<\/p>\n
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The Highway is expected to be closed for an undetermined period of time between Superior Shores and 5th<\/sup> Road (12 km East of the Flying J truck stop).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Fire Services, Emergency Medical Services (EMS) and the Ministry of Transportation are on scene to assist.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Technical Collision Investigation (TCI) unit is on scene to conduct their investigation.\u00a0The cause of the collision is under investigation.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Further information will be released as it becomes available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On August 19, 2019, at approximately 6:05 p.m., officers from the Thunder Bay and Nipigon Detachments of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), Shuniah Fire and Emergency Services and Superior North Emergency Medical Service (EMS) responded to a multi-vehicle collision on Highway 11\/17 near Pearl Road 5, in the Municipality of Shuniah. Preliminary investigation revealed that …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-northern-ontario"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-26 12:22:04","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\/23489","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=23489"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23512,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23489\/revisions\/23512"}],"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=23489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}