{"id":54225,"date":"2022-06-06T14:44:11","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T18:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=54225"},"modified":"2022-06-06T14:44:11","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T18:44:11","slug":"ssm-opp-fatal-atv-incident-being-investigated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/06\/ssm-opp-fatal-atv-incident-being-investigated\/","title":{"rendered":"SSM OPP &#8211; Fatal ATV Incident being Investigated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/OPPCrest-e1501592123859.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-101\" src=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/OPPCrest-e1501592123859.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"236\" \/><\/a>On June 3, 2022, shortly after 4:00 p.m., members from the Sault Ste Marie Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), the OPP&#8217;s Emergency Response Team (ERT), North East (Sault Ste Marie) Canine Unit, Batchewana First Nation Police Service, the OPP Helicopter and Sault Search and Rescue responded to a report of two missing people in the Tribag Mine Road area in Batchewana Bay.<\/p>\n<p>Investigation determined three side-by-side ATV&#8217;s were on a bush road and two had crossed and went through a hazard in the road and travelled several hundred metres and waited for the third side-by-side to catch up.\u00a0The third side-by-side never caught up.<\/p>\n<p>Police who were in the area attended immediately and started a search with search efforts continuing throughout the night. On June 4, 2022 shortly after 10:00 a.m., police located the missing side-by-side submerged in the Batchewana River several kilometers from where they had gone missing.<\/p>\n<p>The driver 78-year-old Rudolph Weatley and passenger 76-year-old Vera Molochnikova, both from Sault Ste Marie were located deceased.<\/p>\n<p>The OPP&#8217;s Technical Traffic Collision Investigators (TTCI) and the Office of the Chief Coroner- Ontario Forensic Pathology Service (OCC-FPS) are assisting with this investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On June 3, 2022, shortly after 4:00 p.m., members from the Sault Ste Marie Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), the OPP&#8217;s Emergency Response Team (ERT), North East (Sault Ste Marie) Canine Unit, Batchewana First Nation Police Service, the OPP Helicopter and Sault Search and Rescue responded to a report of two missing people &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-district"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-23 04:54:28","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\/54225","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=54225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54226,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54225\/revisions\/54226"}],"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=54225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}