{"id":86870,"date":"2026-09-24T07:58:04","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T11:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=86870"},"modified":"2026-09-24T07:58:39","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T11:58:39","slug":"sudbury-opp-fatal-collision-with-moose-closes-hwy-17-for-8-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/24\/sudbury-opp-fatal-collision-with-moose-closes-hwy-17-for-8-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudbury OPP &#8211; Fatal Collision with Moose closes Hwy 17 for 8 hours"},"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>One person is deceased following a single-vehicle collision on Highway 17 in Sudbury.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, September 23, 2026, at approximately 9:15 p.m., members of the Nipissing West (Sudbury) Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to a collision involving a passenger vehicle and a moose on Highway 17, west of the Highway 144 junction.<\/p>\n<p>The 20-year-old driver from Sudbury was pronounced deceased at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The OPP Traffic Incident Management and Enforcement (TIME) Team assisted with the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The eastbound lanes of Highway 17 were closed for approximately eight hours while police examined the scene. The highway has since reopened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One person is deceased following a single-vehicle collision on Highway 17 in Sudbury. On Wednesday, September 23, 2026, at approximately 9:15 p.m., members of the Nipissing West (Sudbury) Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to a collision involving a passenger vehicle and a moose on Highway 17, west of the Highway 144 junction. &#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-86870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-northern-ontario"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-01 09:48:02","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\/86870","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=86870"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86872,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86870\/revisions\/86872"}],"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=86870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}