{"id":574,"date":"2017-02-21T06:45:34","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T11:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=574"},"modified":"2017-05-21T21:39:01","modified_gmt":"2017-05-22T01:39:01","slug":"hwy-17-closed-due-to-washout-at-northern-lights-ford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2017\/02\/21\/hwy-17-closed-due-to-washout-at-northern-lights-ford\/","title":{"rendered":"Hwy 17 CLOSED due to Washout at Northern Lights Ford"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wawa-news just drove out to the barricade at Hwy 101 and Hwy 17 (6:30 a.m.) and has confirmed with the officer there that Highway 17 has been closed due to a washout at Northern Lights Ford. He couldn’t comment to media as to the severity of the washout. He did advise that there should be a press release issued by the SE OPP Detachment shortly.<\/p>\n

The highway was closed at 4:32 a.m. and public notified via a tweet. There was no press release issued at that time.<\/p>\n

OPP tweeted and emailed a press release at 6:33\/6:30 – This is the first official confirmation of why the highway has been closed.<\/p>\n

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“News release from the OPP – ROAD CLOSURE ADVISORY – Hwy 17<\/p>\n

Location:<\/strong>\u00a0including Highway 17 closed between Highway 101 and White River<\/p>\n

Brief description of incident and reason for the closure<\/strong>: Highway 17 north of Wawa has been closed by the OPP due to a partial washout of the roadway. Highway 17 will be closed between Highway 101 and White River.<\/p>\n

Detour:\u00a0<\/strong>None<\/p>\n

Time of Occurrence\/Closure:\u00a0<\/strong>0355hrs<\/p>\n

Estimated duration of Road Advisory:\u00a0<\/em>unknown”<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Wawa-news will continue to update as more information becomes available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wawa-news just drove out to the barricade at Hwy 101 and Hwy 17 (6:30 a.m.) and has confirmed with the officer there that Highway 17 has been closed due to a washout at Northern Lights Ford. He couldn’t comment to media as to the severity of the washout. He did advise that there should be …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,40,48],"tags":[480],"class_list":["post-574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-local","category-weather","tag-northern-lights-ford-washout-2017"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-17 06:36:28","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\/574","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=574"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":580,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions\/580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}