{"id":7637,"date":"2017-11-01T15:31:44","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T19:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=7637"},"modified":"2017-11-02T09:41:50","modified_gmt":"2017-11-02T13:41:50","slug":"tractor-trailer-collision-closes-hwy-17-between-upsala-and-shabaqua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2017\/11\/01\/tractor-trailer-collision-closes-hwy-17-between-upsala-and-shabaqua\/","title":{"rendered":"Tractor Trailer Collision closes Hwy 17 between Upsala and Shabaqua"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Nov 1, 2017 @ 15:31<\/b><\/p>\n

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One lane is open at the collision site. OPP are conducting traffic – expect delays.<\/p>\n

Nov 1, 2017 @ 15:10<\/b><\/p>\n

There is coffee, tea, fresh baked cookies, and homemade soup at the community center, the first turn into Upsala. The girls are there now stocking up. Will be a few more hours at least before things get moving is what we\u2019ve been told. The cookies are great. Clean bathrooms, tv. ~ via Rachel, Upsala (3:08 p.m.)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Nov 1, 2017 @ 11:55<\/b><\/p>\n

On November 1, 2017 at approximately 8:30 a.m. officers from the Thunder Bay Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to a motor vehicle collision on Highway 17, \u00a040 km West of Shabaqua. Two Commercial Motor Vehicles (tractor trailer units) collided and Highway 17 is completely closed at this time.<\/p>\n

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Two people have been confirmed deceased as a result of the collision.\u00a0Their identities are being withheld pending notification of next of kin.<\/p>\n

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Highway 11, through Atikokan is available as an alternate route for traffic travelling Westbound.<\/p>\n

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Technical Traffic Collision Investigators (TTCI) are at the scene and \u00a0the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) has been deployed.<\/p>\n

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Nov 1, 2017 @ 10:44<\/b><\/p>\n

On November 1, 2017 at approximately 8:30 a.m. officers from the Thunder Bay Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to a motor vehicle collision on Highway 17, \u00a040 km West of Shabaqua. Two Commercial Motor Vehicles (tractor trailer units) collided and Highway 17 is completely closed at this time.<\/p>\n

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Highway 11, through Atikokan is available as an alternate route for traffic travelling\u00a0East\u00a0or West.<\/p>\n

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Technical Traffic Collision Investigators (TTCI) are attending the scene to assist with the investigation.<\/p>\n

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Nov 1, 2017 @ 10:01<\/b><\/p>\n

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Thunder Bay\u00a0Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police have advised that Highway 17 between Upsala and Shabaqua is closed due to a serious MVC involving two tractor trailer units. There is no estimated time of reopening.<\/p>\n

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UPDATED Nov 1, 2017 @ 15:31 One lane is open at the collision site. OPP are conducting traffic – expect delays. Nov 1, 2017 @ 15:10 There is coffee, tea, fresh baked cookies, and homemade soup at the community center, the first turn into Upsala. The girls are there now stocking up. Will be a …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[961],"class_list":["post-7637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-northern-ontario","tag-hwy-17-closed-nov-1"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-22 06:55:36","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\/7637","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=7637"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7719,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7637\/revisions\/7719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}