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<\/a>Members of the Marathon detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to two separate motor vehicle collisions that occurred on Highway 17 in less than a twelve hour period.<\/p>\nJune 15, 2017 at 02:19 a.m.; OPP, Marathon Fire Department (MFD), and Emergency Medical Services (EMS) were called to Highway 17, Brothers Township approximately 60km east of Marathon near Dunk Lake. A tractor trailer collided with a 2008 BMW X5 Station wagon. The driver of the station wagon, Abdoul SAID a 34-year-old male from Edmonton AB, had to be extricated by MFD and was taken to a local hospital by EMS. The driver’s injuries were critical but it is unknown at the time of this release as to his current condition.<\/p>\n
The driver of the tractor trailer Davinderjit PARMAR a male age 35, and passenger Mandeep Singh PARMAR age 32 both of Surry, BC were treated by EMS at the scene and released with minor injuries.<\/p>\n
At 08:20 a.m. police were called for a second single motor vehicle collision on Highway 17, Bomby Township approximately 40km east of Marathon at Cigar Lake near the Hemlo Mine Site. A westbound tractor trailer left the roadway, rolling upside down into a rock-cut partially resting in the water.<\/p>\n
Both the driver and passenger had to be extricated by MFD from the vehicle and were transported by EMS to a local hospital to be treated for serious injuries. The identity and current condition of both parties were not available at the time of this release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Jun 15, 2017 @ 16:40 Members of the Marathon detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to two separate motor vehicle collisions that occurred on Highway 17 in less than a twelve hour period. June 15, 2017 at 02:19 a.m.; OPP, Marathon Fire Department (MFD), and Emergency Medical Services (EMS) were called to Highway …<\/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":[559],"class_list":["post-4212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-northern-ontario","tag-marathon-ontario-provincial-police-department"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-27 18:03:19","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\/4212","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=4212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4213,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4212\/revisions\/4213"}],"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=4212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}