{"id":76587,"date":"2025-08-29T07:38:44","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T11:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=76587"},"modified":"2025-08-29T07:38:53","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T11:38:53","slug":"dryden-opp-investigation-continues-into-fatal-collision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/29\/dryden-opp-investigation-continues-into-fatal-collision\/","title":{"rendered":"Dryden OPP &#8211; Investigation continues into 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>Members of the Dryden Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) are investigating a fatal collision that occurred on Highway 17 in Dryden.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, August 28, 2025, at approximately 10:15 a.m. officers responded to a single vehicle collision involving two female occupants.\u00a0Emergency Medical Services transported both individuals to hospital. The driver was pronounced deceased while the passenger sustained non-life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The OPP Northwest Region Traffic Incident Management and Enforcement Team and OPP Technical Collision Investigators are assisting with the ongoing investigation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The highway remains closed at Sandy Beach Road and Highway 72.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who may have witnessed the collision is asked to contact the OPP at\u00a0<strong>1-888-310-1122<\/strong>. To remain anonymous, tips can be submitted to Crime Stoppers <strong>at\u00a01-800-222-8477 (<\/strong>TIPS)\u00a0or online at\u00a0<strong>ontariocrimestoppers.ca <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the Dryden Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) are investigating a fatal collision that occurred on Highway 17 in Dryden. &nbsp; On Thursday, August 28, 2025, at &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":75103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-northern-ontario"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-12 20:31:37","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\/76587","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=76587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76588,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76587\/revisions\/76588"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}