{"id":73157,"date":"2025-04-09T08:42:57","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T12:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=73157"},"modified":"2025-04-09T08:42:57","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T12:42:57","slug":"east-algoma-opp-ovr-operator-charged-with-careless-driving-causing-death-after-october-15-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/09\/east-algoma-opp-ovr-operator-charged-with-careless-driving-causing-death-after-october-15-incident\/","title":{"rendered":"East Algoma OPP &#8211; OVR Operator Charged with Careless driving causing death after October 15 incident"},"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-medium wp-image-101\" src=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/OPPCrest-e1501592123859-300x236.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"236\" \/><\/a>On April 8, 2025, the East Algoma Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) charged the Off-Road Vehicle (ORV), or &#8220;side-by-side&#8221;, operator.<\/p>\n<p>On October 15, 2024, at approximately 2:45 a.m. police and Emergency Medical Services (EMS) responded to a single ORV collision on a gravel road in a remote location off the Portelance Road, north of Elliot Lake.<\/p>\n<p>The collision resulted in an ORV roll over, claiming the life of a 61-year-old passenger. After an extensive investigation by the OPP&#8217;s Traffic Incident Management Enforcement (TIME) team and Technical Collison Investigator (TCI), under the direction of the Office of the Chief Coroner and the Ontario Forensic Pathology Service (OCC-OFPS), the ORV operator was charged.<\/p>\n<p>Todd UNDERWOOD, 62-years-old, from Elliot Lake, was charged with:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Careless driving causing death<\/li>\n<li>Drive with passenger not wearing seatbelt<\/li>\n<li>Drive with passenger not wearing proper helmet<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The accused is scheduled to appear at the Ontario Court of Justice in Elliot Lake on May 21, 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 8, 2025, the East Algoma Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) charged the Off-Road Vehicle (ORV), or &#8220;side-by-side&#8221;, operator. On October 15, 2024, at approximately 2:45 a.m. police and Emergency Medical Services (EMS) responded to a single ORV collision on a gravel road in a remote location off the Portelance Road, north of Elliot Lake. &#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-73157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-district"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-30 13:14:11","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\/73157","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=73157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73158,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73157\/revisions\/73158"}],"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=73157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}