{"id":83441,"date":"2026-05-25T07:30:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T11:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=83441"},"modified":"2026-05-24T19:36:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T23:36:18","slug":"shabaqua-opp-investigation-continues-into-serious-collision-at-sistonens-corner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/25\/shabaqua-opp-investigation-continues-into-serious-collision-at-sistonens-corner\/","title":{"rendered":"Shabaqua OPP &#8211; Investigation continues into Serious Collision at Sistonen&#8217;s Corner"},"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>A section of Highway 17 at the Highway 11 intersection in Shabaqua was closed for several hours following a serious two-vehicle collision.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Shabaqua Detachment responded to the collision involving a transport truck and a passenger vehicle on Saturday, May 23, 2026, at approximately 11:19 a.m. EST.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of the collision, Highway 17 was closed in both directions between Sistonen&#8217;s Corner and Shabaqua Corners for several hours. The highway partially reopened shortly after 3:00 p.m. with alternating eastbound and westbound traffic, before fully reopening at 7:15 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the passenger vehicle was airlifted to hospital and remains in critical condition. The passenger of the same vehicle was transported to hospital by ambulance.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation remains ongoing with assistance from the OPP Traffic Incident Management and Enforcement (TIME) Unit, including members of the Technical Collision Investigation and Reconstruction team.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who witnessed the collision or may have dashcam footage and has not yet spoken with police is asked to contact the OPP at 1-888-310-1122. Those wishing to remain anonymous can contact Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or submit a tip online at ontariocrimestoppers.ca.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A section of Highway 17 at the Highway 11 intersection in Shabaqua was closed for several hours following a serious two-vehicle collision. Members of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Shabaqua Detachment responded to the collision involving a transport truck and a passenger vehicle on Saturday, May 23, 2026, at approximately 11:19 a.m. EST. As 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-83441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-northern-ontario"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-01 08:09:37","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\/83441","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=83441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83442,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83441\/revisions\/83442"}],"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=83441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}