{"id":86140,"date":"2026-08-26T08:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T12:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=86140"},"modified":"2026-08-26T07:31:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T11:31:50","slug":"thunder-bay-opp-investigation-continues-into-fatal-collision-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/26\/thunder-bay-opp-investigation-continues-into-fatal-collision-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunder Bay 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 Thunder Bay Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) are investigating a fatal collision involving a tractor trailer unit and passenger vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, August 25, 2026, at approximately 12:30 p.m. EDT, OPP officers along with emergency medical services responded to reports of a collision at the intersection of Mapleward Road and Highway 11-17.<\/p>\n<p>One individual, a 19-year-old female from Thunder Bay, was transported to hospital where she was pronounced deceased.<\/p>\n<p>A section of Highway 11-17 was closed for several hours while the OPP Traffic Incident Management Enforcement team conducted their investigation but has since reopened.<\/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>Members of the Thunder Bay Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) are investigating a fatal collision involving a tractor trailer unit and passenger vehicle. On Tuesday, August 25, 2026, at approximately 12:30 p.m. EDT, OPP officers along with emergency medical services responded to reports of a collision at the intersection of Mapleward Road and &#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-86140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-northern-ontario"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-02 09:46:14","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\/86140","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=86140"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86142,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86140\/revisions\/86142"}],"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=86140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}