{"id":80122,"date":"2026-01-07T12:45:29","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T17:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=80122"},"modified":"2026-01-07T12:47:54","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T17:47:54","slug":"two-die-in-two-vehicle-collision-on-hwy-144","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/07\/two-die-in-two-vehicle-collision-on-hwy-144\/","title":{"rendered":"Two die in Two-Vehicle collision on Hwy 144"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"timestamp\"><b>Jan 7, 2026 at 12:45<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/OPPCrest-e1501592123859.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-101\" src=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/OPPCrest-e1501592123859.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"236\" \/><\/a>Two individuals have been pronounced deceased after a two-vehicle collision on Highway 144 in Sudbury.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, January 6, 2026, at approximately 5:30 p.m., members of the Nipissing West (Sudbury) Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to reports of a head-on collision involving a pick-up truck and a minivan on Highway 144, just south of Forest Ridge Road in Sudbury.<\/p>\n<p>Both drivers, a 58-year-old female from Capreol and a 53-year-old male from Sudbury were pronounced deceased at the scene. Emergency Medical Services transported one passenger to the local hospital with serious, but non-life threating injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation remains ongoing with assistance from the OPP Technical Collision Investigation and Reconstruction teams to determine the cause of the collision.<\/p>\n<p>The highway was closed in both directions for just under eight hours.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who may have witnessed the collision or has dashcam footage from the area at the time of the incident is asked to contact the OPP at\u00a01-888-310-1122. To remain anonymous, tips can be submitted to Crime Stoppers at\u00a01-800-222-8477\u00a0or online at\u00a0ontariocrimestoppers.ca.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jan 7, 2026 at 12:45 Two individuals have been pronounced deceased after a two-vehicle collision on Highway 144 in Sudbury. On Tuesday, January 6, 2026, at approximately 5:30 p.m., members of the Nipissing West (Sudbury) Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to reports of a head-on collision involving a pick-up truck and a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":75103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-northern-ontario"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-17 23:52:10","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\/80122","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=80122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80123,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80122\/revisions\/80123"}],"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=80122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}