{"id":5964,"date":"2017-08-28T10:32:03","date_gmt":"2017-08-28T14:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=5964"},"modified":"2017-08-28T10:53:04","modified_gmt":"2017-08-28T14:53:04","slug":"hwy-17-blocked-at-three-ring-road-wawa-to-sault-ste-marie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2017\/08\/28\/hwy-17-blocked-at-three-ring-road-wawa-to-sault-ste-marie\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 10:32 a.m. Now Open &#8211; Hwy 17 Blocked at Three Ring Road (Wawa to Sault Ste. Marie)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Aug 28, 2017 @ 10:32 &#8211; <\/b>The transport has been removed. Highway is now open. The highway had been closed for 2 1\/2 hours.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Aug 28, 2017 @ 09:36 &#8211; <\/b>Updated with photos, courtesy of\u00a0St\u00e9phanie Ouellet.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5973\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/21150837_10159216859855481_1246013237_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5973\" class=\"wp-image-5973 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/21150837_10159216859855481_1246013237_n-600x450.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/21150837_10159216859855481_1246013237_n-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/21150837_10159216859855481_1246013237_n-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/21150837_10159216859855481_1246013237_n-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/21150837_10159216859855481_1246013237_n.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5973\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Photo courtesy of St\u00e9phanie Ouellet.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Aug 28, 2017 @ 08:51<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5965\" src=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Aug28-Closure-300x137.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"137\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Aug28-Closure-300x137.png 300w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Aug28-Closure.png 395w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Just after 8 a.m. a transport tried to turn around on the highway and ended up with the tractor in the ditch and the trailer blocking the highway.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As a result\u00a0Highway 17 is blocked at this time at Three Ring Road (just south of Batchawana Bay \/ Batchawana River). Laird Towing is on their way to move the transport (5:45 a.m.).<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5972\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/21150873_10159216860580481_458607636_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5972\" class=\"size-large wp-image-5972\" src=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/21150873_10159216860580481_458607636_n-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/21150873_10159216860580481_458607636_n-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/21150873_10159216860580481_458607636_n-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/21150873_10159216860580481_458607636_n-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/21150873_10159216860580481_458607636_n.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5972\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo courtesy of St\u00e9phanie Ouellet.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The OPP NER Communication Twitter feed is out of service at this time.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5966\" src=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Aug28-Closure-511-300x185.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Aug28-Closure-511-300x185.png 300w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Aug28-Closure-511.png 564w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ontario511 is reporting that as of 8:20 that the highway is closed at the Batchawana River.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Wawa-news will continue to update as more information becomes available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aug 28, 2017 @ 10:32 &#8211; The transport has been removed. Highway is now open. The highway had been closed for 2 1\/2 hours. &nbsp; Aug 28, 2017 @ 09:36 &#8211; Updated with photos, courtesy of\u00a0St\u00e9phanie Ouellet. &nbsp; &nbsp; Aug 28, 2017 @ 08:51 Just after 8 a.m. a transport tried to turn around on &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-29 13:26:34","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\/5964","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=5964"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5976,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5964\/revisions\/5976"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}