{"id":84626,"date":"2026-07-11T19:35:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T23:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=84626"},"modified":"2026-07-11T19:37:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T23:37:03","slug":"thunder-bay-opp-investigation-continues-into-fatal-motorcycle-collision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/11\/thunder-bay-opp-investigation-continues-into-fatal-motorcycle-collision\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunder Bay OPP &#8211; Investigation continues into fatal Motorcycle 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>On Saturday, July 11, 2026, at approximately 7:30 a.m., members of the Thunder Bay Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) along with emergency medical services responded to a report of a fatal motorcycle collision on Highway 11-17 near Highway 527.<\/p>\n<p>A stretch of Highway 11-17 between Highway 527 and MacGregor Road was closed for several hours as officers and the OPP Traffic Incident Management Enforcement (TIME) team continued their investigation. The highway has since reopened.<\/p>\n<p>The OPP would like to thank the public for their patience and cooperation during the highway closure while they conducted their investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information or video footage of the incident is asked to contact Thunder Bay OPP at 1-888-310-1122.<\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div><div class=\"divider\"><\/div>\n<p>Members of the Thunder Bay Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) are investigating a motorcycle collision that has resulted in a fatality.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, July 11, 2026, at approximately 7:30 a.m., officers along with emergency medical services responded to reports of a collision along Highway 11-17 near Highway 527 involving multiple motorcycles.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of the incident, a 58-year-old female from Sault Ste. Marie was pronounced deceased at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation by Thunder Bay OPP is continuing, with assistance from members of the OPP Traffic Incident Management Enforcement (TIME) team, including a Collision Reconstructionist and Technical Collision Investigator.<\/p>\n<p>Highway 11-17 remains closed between Highway 527 and MacGregor Road. A lengthy closure is expected.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information or video footage of the incident is asked to contact Thunder Bay OPP at 1-888-310-1122.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, July 11, 2026, at approximately 7:30 a.m., members of the Thunder Bay Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) along with emergency medical services responded to a report of a fatal motorcycle collision on Highway 11-17 near Highway 527. A stretch of Highway 11-17 between Highway 527 and MacGregor Road was closed for &#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-84626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-northern-ontario"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-18 20:23:12","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\/84626","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=84626"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84629,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84626\/revisions\/84629"}],"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=84626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}