{"id":74730,"date":"2025-06-21T15:02:25","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T19:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=74730"},"modified":"2025-06-21T15:02:49","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T19:02:49","slug":"se-opp-wawa-investigation-continues-into-friday-nights-fatal-collision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/21\/se-opp-wawa-investigation-continues-into-friday-nights-fatal-collision\/","title":{"rendered":"SE OPP Wawa &#8211; Investigation continues into Friday Night&#8217;s Fatal Collision"},"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>The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) is currently investigating a serious collision that has resulted in one fatality south of Wawa on Highway 17, north of Katherine Cove. The scene has been cleared, and the highway is reopened.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, June 20, 2025, at approximately 10:00 p.m., officers from the Superior East Wawa OPP, Algoma Ambulance, and the Wawa Fire Department responded to a two-vehicle collision approximately 60 kilometers south of Wawa on Highway 17, just north of Katherine Cove. As a result of the collision, one driver is deceased, and a second driver sustained serious injuries and was transported to hospital by ambulance.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The highway was closed overnight while OPP and the Traffic Incident Management Enforcement (TIME) team conducted their investigation and is now open.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The investigation remains ongoing. Anyone with information or dashcam footage of the collision is asked to contact the Superior East OPP at 1-888-310-1122, or report anonymously through Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS) or online at ontariocrimestoppers.ca<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The OPP remains committed to public safety and thanks the community for their cooperation and patience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) is currently investigating a serious collision that has resulted in one fatality south of Wawa on Highway 17, north of Katherine Cove. The scene has been cleared, and the highway is reopened. &nbsp; On Friday, June 20, 2025, at approximately 10:00 p.m., officers from the Superior East Wawa OPP, Algoma &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":32489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[3321],"class_list":["post-74730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-katherine-cove"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-17 05:31:07","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\/74730","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74731,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74730\/revisions\/74731"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}