{"id":80807,"date":"2026-02-06T15:00:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T20:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=80807"},"modified":"2026-02-10T07:23:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T12:23:46","slug":"thunder-bay-opp-investigation-continues-into-fatal-collision-on-hwy-11-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/06\/thunder-bay-opp-investigation-continues-into-fatal-collision-on-hwy-11-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunder Bay OPP &#8211; Investigation continues into Fatal Collision on Hwy 11\/17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/OPPCrest-e1501592123859.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-101 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/OPPCrest-e1501592123859.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"236\" \/><\/a>The Thunder Bay Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) is investigating a fatal collision on Highway 11\/17.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, February 5, 2026, at approximately 9:00 p.m. EST, members of the Thunder Bay OPP and emergency medical services responded to a fatal collision involving two passenger vehicles on Highway 11\/17 between Highway 130 and Highway 588. A 23-year-old female from Poplar Hill and a 28-year-old female from Eabametoong First Nation were pronounced deceased. Two other individuals were transported to hospital with minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Highway 11\/17 was closed for several hours between Sistonens Corners and Highway 130 while officers and the OPP Traffic Incident Management Enforcement team conducted their investigation.<\/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 1-888-310-1122. To remain anonymous, tips can be submitted to Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or online at ontariocrimestoppers.ca.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Thunder Bay Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) is investigating a fatal collision on Highway 11\/17. On Thursday, February 5, 2026, at approximately 9:00 p.m. EST, members of the Thunder Bay OPP and emergency medical services responded to a fatal collision involving two passenger vehicles on Highway 11\/17 between Highway 130 and Highway &#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-80807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-northern-ontario"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-21 06:21:39","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\/80807","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=80807"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80809,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80807\/revisions\/80809"}],"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=80807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}